As a general rule when a Jury is held, the students have to face with the evaluation and critical sense of a jury composed of external professionals and professors, which haven’t followed up the work of the students during de academic year. What happen if Final Degree Project students in Architecture experiment for several hours the sensation of being active part of an examining board or jury of Architectural Projects? Would the way in which they will face up their future professional projects be different? After this experience, would the students reconsider their attitude when they have to present their Final Degree Projects to an examining board? Would “The Rookies” experience be useful for them after witnessing a jury from the other side? The main aim of “The Rookies” is to complement the academic training of the Final Degree Project students, in order to consolidate their acquisition of both critical and evaluation sense with respect to the work of their classmates.
