Congratulations to all participants of the inaugural ACT Young ICT Explorers! 80 students from 10 schools entered the challenge, delivering 33 high quality projects. We hope everyone pulled a few words of wisdom from Andrew Clapham’s keynote speech – most importantly the importance of what he called ‘cool tech’ – those exciting moments when knowing how to code can lead to amazing business ideas. Great work Canberra – the judges were very impressed and noted the high quality of all entries! This year’s awards went to –

Year 5 – 6

1^st Place Equal –  Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with A Little Hand (by Paris McMahon)
1^st Place Equal –  Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Scratch Projects (by Emily Turner)
2^nd Place –   Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Childhood Obesity Animation (Minecraft) (by Emily Turner, Laura Cockerill and Sophie-Rose Eccles)
3^rd Place –  Turner School with Snail Life (by Olivia Allen, Kai den Hertog and Mia Rajak)
Merit –   Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with School QR Codes (by Ella Cross and Felicity Allanson)

Year 7 – 8

1^st Place – Canberra Grammar School with Reduce Your Emissions (by Thomas Faulder and Timothy Muya)
2^nd Place –   Canberra Grammar School with Code Clinic (by Jaxon Kneipp and Damian Camilleri)
2^nd Place –   Canberra Grammar School with Crunch (by George Dan)
3^rd Place Equal –  Canberra Grammar School with Class Timetable (by Shobhit Bajpai)
3^rd Place Equal –  St Clare’s College with Selfless (by Alexandra Black)
3^rd Place Equal –  Canberra Grammar School with Tech>How (by Forbes Mailler and Harrison Bergman)

Year 9 – 10

1^st Place – Canberra Grammar School with Geburtstag (by Christopher Seidl, Benjamin Maliel and Ben McLean)
2^nd Place –  St Clare’s College with ACT Avoid (by Emily Macaulay, Mia Bueno and Madeline Buddee)

Year 11 -12

1^st Place –  St Francis Xavier College with Smart Soccer (by Nathan Potter, Alexander Cavalli and Jordan Haddrick)
2^nd Place –  Canberra College with Voice and Motion-Controlled Bluetooth Robot (by Claudia Schipp, Ted Pettigrove, Adam Rowland and Jonothan Rehn)
3^rd Place –  Dickson College with Indoor Positioning System (by Amy Blunt, Frankie Braybon and Danilo Jankovic)
Merit –  Dickson College with Dickson Interactive (by Noah Ingham, Keenan Smith and Stephen James)

Overall Student Choice
Canberra Grammar School with Crunch (by George Dan)

Congratulation to all those that participated in the inaugural Victorian Young ICT Explorers competition held in SAP’s Melbourne headquarters on 23 August, 2014.

The projects and participants were fantastic as were the views from the 15^th floor.  Thank you again to all those involved.  Judges awarded the following prizes.

Years 5 – 6

1^st Place –  Doncaster Gardens Primary School with Pingball (by James Bui, Joshua Poon, Ken Gene Quah and Jun Hua Chen)
2^nd Place –  Independent Entry with The Electric Car and Caravan (by Blake Sharp and Jemma Zuker)
3^rd Place Equal –  Beaconhills College Berwick Campus with BIDMAS (by Jorja Pugh)
3^rd Place Equal –  Mount Waverly North Primary School with Jr Java (byDevinth Desilva and Savindu  Wijeyasooriya)< Merit –  Beaconhills College Berwick Campus with Using Mindcraft in a collaborative learning situation in Mathematics (by Abbey Newman and Brittany Ellis)

Years 7 – 8

1^st Place –  Belgrave Heights Christian School with Flappy Bat (by Nathan Mitchell and Dylan Fabre)

Years 9 – 10

1^st Place –  Good News Lutheran College with MMD Animated Video Project (by Claire Wurster
2^nd Place –  Ivanhoe Grammar School with Microsoft Vs Apple (byLiam Saliba)
3^rd Place –  Weeroona College Bendigo with Systematic Annihilation (by Shaun Gittins and Brett Murphy)

Years 11 – 12

1^st Place – Caulfield Grammar School with BitVest (by Jonte De Zwart)
2^nd Place – East Doncaster Secondary College with Periodic – Interactive Periodic Table (by Steven Tang, Matthew Ku and Anthony Lin)

Student Choice Award – East Doncaster Secondary College with Periodic – Interactive Periodic Table (by Steven Tang, Matthew Ku and Anthony Lin)

Congratulations to all the students that participated in the Queensland 2014 Young ICT Explorers. The diversity and complexity of the projects was incredible and the future’s looking bright for innovation in Queensland’s tech sector! Below is a list of schools and projects that received awards on the day.

Years 4 – 5

1st Place –  St Columba’s School with The Global Farmer’s Friend (FF) (by Atlas Mark1 by Dominic Cleary, Noah Fenech, James Rush)
2nd Place –  Good News Lutheran School with Ready Set Read (by Holly McGuigan)
3rd Place –  Ironside State School with Electrified (by Lara Owen, Ella Mornement and Shanissa Janamian)
Merit –  Ironside State School with Safety in the House (by Zhengde Fang, Amitai Rosenbaum)

Years 6 – 7

1st Place –  Milton State School with Naplancraft (by Elliot Alexander, Darcy Border, Joseph Zhang)
2nd Place –  Elanora State School with Go Home (by Andrew Phillips, Aaron Gannaway, Josh Mitchell, Billy Burdett)
3rd Place –  Good News Lutheran School with Light it Up (by Jessica Parcell, Zara Woodham, Derryn Nel)
Merit –  Rivermount College with Ultimate Checklist (by Charles Delaforce, Lily Kearney, Jemma Pettifer, Isabella Foley)

Years 8 – 9

1st Place –  Kenmore State High School with Tricorder (by Michael Schulz)
2nd Place –  St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School with ICTinMe 2 (by Brynlea Gibson)
3rd Place –  Mansfield State High School with Tic Tac Toe in Python (by Matthew Docherty)
Merit –  Anglican Church Grammar School with Rebel Block (by  James Dyer)

Years 10 -12

1st Place –  Brisbane Girls Grammar School with Girls for Girls web app (by Ashley McGregor)
2nd Place –  Queensland Academy for Science, Mathmatics and Technology with GigCove – music gig discovery (by Liam Edwards-Playne)
3rd Place –  Brisbane State High School with PLATY (by Matthew Ryan)
Merit –  Villanova College with Touchless 3D Motion Tracker (by Daniel Ju, Jonathan Vukim, Jason Hang)

Student Choice Award –
Good News Lutheran School with Stop Cyberbullies! by Lydia McMah and Charlie Stock

Congratulations to all participants of the inaugural Townsville Young ICT Explorers! Approximately 50 students from five schools entered the challenge, delivering almost 20 high quality projects. We hope everyone pulled a few words of wisdom from Tristan Davey’s keynote speech – he sure enjoyed spending time with you. Great work Townsville – the judges were very impressed and noted the high quality of all entries! This year’s awards went to –

Years 4 – 5

1st place –  Ryan Catholic College with Let’s see ADHD (by Samuel Short)
2nd place –  The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James with Solar Popcorn Maker (by Thomas Dallimore, Alexander Donahue, Hamish Finlayson and Toshiro Larsen)

Years 6 – 7

1st Place –  Holy Spirit School with Touring Queensland (by Sarah Waddell and Hayden Dunlop)
2nd Place –  Fitzgerald State School with Super Sports Balls & Website (by Ella Sippel, Sienna Bachmann and Jana Bassan)
3rd Place –  Fitzgerald State School with Robot Hockey (by Ben Allen, Griffin Ward, Dylan Ashford and Aaron Lawn)
Merit – Fitzgerald State School with Mr Word’s Letters (by Annerique Goussard and Bianca Little)

Years 8 – 9

1st Place –  Whitsunday Anglican School with uTECH Website (by Jake Magro, John Hatfield and Alex Herron)
2nd Place –  Ryan Catholic College with Rubbish Heroes (by Alexander Stafford and Otto Harris-Oldenburg)

Years 10 – 12

1st Place – Ryan Catholic College with WAI App (by Jason Hill)
2nd Place –  Ryan Catholic College with Science Banner (by Jade Saw)
3rd Place –  Ryan Catholic College with Science Banner (by Alwin George)

Student Choice Award
Fitzgerald State School with Robot Hockey (by Ben Allen, Griffin Ward, Dylan Ashfor and Aaron Lawn)

Congratulations to the Young ICT Explorers winners for NSW 2014. Held at the University of New South Wales – the day was jam packed with energy and excitement. The teams of judges had a hard time deciding who to award this as this year’s winners but ultimately it came down to how well the student groups had applied technology to a problem they were trying to solve. Once again – well done to everyone involved. Below is a list of this year’s recognised projects –

Years 3 – 4

1st Place Equal –  Newington College with Pandemics and Pestilence (by Luke Canter)
1st Place Equal –  Wahroonga Public School with The Raspberry Pi Guys (by Finn Rees, Jasper Avtarovski, Lachlan Hunt, Henry Pallister)
2nd Place –  Newington College with Help us Save the Animals (by Daniel Martin, Cooper Stuart, Cameron Davey-Webb)
3rd Equal –  St Mel’s Primary School with The Effects Of Cyber Bullying (by Sonal Kamble, Tiana Rodarellis)
3rd Equal –  Newington College with Save the Turtles (by Roscoe Pilcher, Ryan Fairbank)
Merit –  Wahroonga Public School with SchoolView (by Matthew de Meyrick, Alex Howard, Lauren Solness)

Years 5 – 6

1st Equal –  Neutral Bay Public School with BIN I.T. (by Declan Predavec, Nicolas Palmer, Nikita Pussell)
1st Equal –  Wahroonga Public School with The Electronic Mate (by Aditya Bansal)
2nd Equal –  Roseville College with Automatic Door Opener (by Jemma Woldhuis)
2nd Equal –  Newington College with Wyvern App (by Luke Waked)
3rd Place –  Newington College with Food Wastage (by Samuel Gresham, Ethan Nemeth, Matthew Gamble)
Merit –  Roseville College with A Fairy Is Born (by Sophie Allen)

Years 7 – 8

1st Place –  Mosman High School with Car Share Space Monitor (by Callum Predavec)
2nd Place –  Northern Beaches Christian School with WeHub – Solar Bluetooth Weather Station (by Flynn Tesoriero, Jarrah Turner)
3rd Place –  Roseville College with Rose Books (by Olivia Okely, Kirsten Love, Abigail Montgomery
Merit –  Abbotsleigh with Project Unlocked (by Emma Edwards, Rebecca Whittle, Kaytlyn Williams)

Years 9 – 10

1st Place –  Manly Selective with Digital Merit System (by Dennis Gann, Harrison Scott, Daniel Kimber)
2nd Place –  De La Salle College with The Web (by Victor Tran, Aidan Nelson, Gian Piero Pernice)
3rd Equal –  Fairvale High School with Emeralds Tomb Game (by Tin Nuygen, Andrew Rutherford)
3rd Equal –  Abbotsleigh with Don’t Judge an Apple by its Colour (by Harini Lakshminarayanan)
Merit –  Coffs Harbour High School with PACE (Prosthetic Arm Controlled by Eeg) (by Luke Croak, Joshua Sechi, Patrick O’Gorman, Peter Mckenzie)

Years 11 – 12

1st Place –  Chatswood High School with Reverie (by Elijah Su’a-huirua)
2nd Place –  Macarthur Anglican School with Classroom Allstars iPad App (by Andre Pearce)
3rd Place –  Knox Grammar School with Arduino Automated Door Lock (by Daniel Schofield)
Merit –  Kanahooka High School with Devils Down Under (by Joel Hudson, Aaron Gentle, Matthew Moukaddem, Ethan Marsland)

Overall Student Choice

Coffs Harbour High School with PACE (Prosthetic Arm Controlled by Eeg) (by Luke Croak, Joshua Sechi, Patrick O’Gorman, Peter Mckenzie)