Year 3 – 4

1^st Place

MemoryBuddy – a Voice App to help Dementia Patients

Lucas Buchanan

Bondi Public School

I am exploring voice technologies and trying to help dementia patients, with all stages of Alzheimer’s and dementia. My product, called Memory Buddy will contain a voice app usable on Google home and an app usable on a tablet or iPhone.

2^nd Place

Project Team Safe Biking

Molly Ireland, Jayde Milhinch, Lalana Lawrance, Ryan O’Donovan

Ashfield Primary School

We have been running a program in our school called Your Move which is encouraging students to walk or ride to school. To integrate this into our YICT project, we have been developing an idea that wirelessly connects bike helmets to a bike through sensors. This will encourage children to wear a helmet as their bike will not physically move if the wireless connection is not made.

3^rd Place

Bullying? Be Smart, Don’t Start

Jessica Schutz, Eloise Crocker

Ryan Catholic College

It is a game is to stop cyberbullying. So, this game will teach kids how to be nice. This game will teach kids to tell the difference between nice words and bad words

Year 5 – 6

1^st Place

Aquerator

Lawson Gallup, Gabrielle Simcox

Auburn South Primary School

Disturbed at seeing fish in the Murray Darling commit belly up, we were inspired to create our invention ‘Aquerator’. This is a mobile self-sustaining water aerator, designed to aerate stagnant river systems by providing oxygen to dying fish, and is also a solution to algae detection. Our environmentally friendly robot will use the Suns energy to propel itself.

2^nd Place

Super Smart Sprinkler

Lucy Clark, Sonia Agarwal, Evie Schroder, Ruby Rowe, Diego Caladiao, Nicholas Kennedy

East Brisbane State School

Recently we have noticed that our oval has started to dry out and to address the problem we have decided to design a super smart sprinkler to our school oval to keep it healthy and green. The goal of this project is to prevent the oval from drying out and help our groundskeeper with his daily chores while learning about the many pieces of tech used. Our super smart sprinkler uses an Arduino and several sensors (Water flow, motion, water depth, weather and moisture sensors) to determine when and when not to turn on the sprinkler. It saves water by keeping it in storage until needed.

3^rd Place

COT Detector

Sophia Way, Chloe O’ Donoghue, Scarlett Ford

Perth College

Our project is about stopping Crown of Thorns Starfish destroying the Great Barrier Reef using Artificial Intelligence. There will be cameras in different locations along the Great Barrier Reef. We have trained IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence program to help to detect the whereabouts of the Crown of Thorns. When the Artificial Intelligence sees a Crown of Thorns Starfish scar (a bright white coloring on the coral that fades after a day) it will then alert the scientists. In addition, it is powered by mud. Mud is a renewable energy source. The microbes eat up the mud and then they emit electrodes. This works by there being Microbes in the mud that travel through the anode and cathode, to where they wait in the capacitator until they are needed as energy.

Year 7 – 8

1^st Place

Smart Plant Pot

Michael Kwai, Michael Liang, Christian Lam, William Shen

Haileybury College

2^nd Place

Real-time Learning

Ellia Baywood, Josh Bennett, Abigail Hammond, Rhy Hoschke, Alara Rajasingham,
Joaquin Lecciones

Kempsey Adventist School

Real-time Learning is a project aimed at improving classroom learning outcomes by considering the well being of students. Kempsey has one of the highest suicide rates in Australia and where poor student well being is a on-going challenge that impacts learning. We are developing an iOS app that simply and quickly captures a student’s readiness to learn and provides this data to the teacher in real-time, enabling the teacher to modify the teaching approach to fit. The app also captures the effectiveness of the lesson at the end and provides this feedback to the teacher.

3^rd Place

BettaBee

Jade Lawrance

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls

This project utilises sensors to select flowers to technologically pollinate. The BettaBee is a flying drone combined with a 3D printed model that has colour sensors and a pollen retaining exterior; this allows it to pollinate flowers quickly and efficiently. It will be able to sense the colour of a flower, enter the flower and collect the pollen before moving to the next flower and repeating these steps, thus spreading the pollen throughout a plantation. The hope of this project is to minimise the impact caused by the extinction of bees from our planet.

Year 9 – 10

1^st Place

Bin It Right – Waste Management App

Lucy Lonnqvist, Poppy Briggs

St Mary’s Anglican Girls School

Bin It Right aims to solve the problem of improper waste disposal with its unique photo recognition feature. This feature allows users to simply take a photo of the item they are unsure what bin it belongs in, and our app then scans the image, and indicates whether the item belongs in the green, waste or recycling bin. Bin It Right is designed for anybody having trouble determining where to put their rubbish and looking for a quick and convenient solution. Every time people use Bin It Right, they become increasingly sustainable towards the environment, and minimise the level of landfill and pollution in Australia.

2^nd Place

Rover

Kai Sean Ng

Kenmore State High School

My project is an open-ended programming puzzle game. You play as a NASA engineer programming mars rover. Program JavaScript code and deploy it to rovers to complete research tasks (Collecting data, soil samples, etc.). I hoped to achieve a game that’s goal is to teach people about code, programming concepts and problem solving.

3^rd Place

Drive-Safe Key Box

Ryan Xie, Jake Aronleigh

Aerobotics Global

The Drive-Safe Keybox is a project were we aim to achieve a compact alcohol detector that holds the keys to someone’s car, this is to help prevent and discourage users from drunk driving as they would be physically restricted from accessing their keys. We aim to reduce the amount of casualties and injuries on the road due to drink driving by stopping people from using their keys when they are intoxicated but without compromising the convenience and compactness of the car key.

Year 11 – 12

1^st Place

Software controlled Pneumatic Robotic

Joshua Beaman

My project is a pneumatic animatronic entertainer, fitted with modern show control technology. My robot is a life-sized guitar player that mimics the movements of a real guitar player, programmed to an audio track. I had aimed to create and control a humanoid structure that would be controlled as effectively as possible by relatively in-expensive materials and techniques.

2^nd Place

Prodigy Evolved

Patrick Morton, John Padua, Zachary Rodrigues

Lumen Christi College

We have returned with an evolution of the previous iteration of our project; Prodigy Evolved. The Project has advanced to attract a larger consumer base. This year, the Project has developed to increase the functionality and connectivity, along with a fully working prototype. The main focus of our Project is to have a digital product that collects data for the User on clean and renewable energy. The target audience is those who want to move into the future with technology and the future of renewable energy. The Project is using an Arduino Mega, with an ethernet shield with the ability to connect wirelessly in the client’s home. Our Application includes a web interface to facilitate information transfer between User and home to give complete control of the system, shaping energy consumption to match their personal preference. With the introduction of new technologies and the development of a functioning Application we can now present the future of home automation. We aim to solve the Sustainable Development Goal of clean and affordable energy by attempting to conserve the non-renewable energy that is used to power everything. Prodigy Evolved is the future that will help preserve our world until an efficient renewable source of energy is developed.

3^rd Place

Bye Bye Bias

William Zhang, Ryan Kam, Saurabh Jhanjee, Ryan Kua

Haileybury College Newlands

To solve the problem of confirmation bias, we decided, for the backend, to use a neural network in python to determine the strength of articles using target dependent sentiment analysis and their topic using unsupervised clustering. They were then stored in a mysql database which we queried from a chrome extension we decided to develop. This chrome extension was to be used in conjunction with a set of data we chose, representing several issues with valid opinions on both the affirmative and negative. When viewing an article on an appropriate topic, the extension would become a pop-up on the bottom of the screen illustrating on a histogram the article’s position on the spectrum of opinions on the topic.

Year 3 – 4

1^st Place

Intelligent Bin

By Charles Tang

East Marden Primary School

My project will be able to sort out rubbish with a camera and a servo motor. It will be able to move a shovel to dump the rubbish into the right bin. I got inspired to do this at school this year when my class went to a recycling dump to learn about waste and how it affects the environment. We learnt about what could be recycled and what couldn’t be recycled or composted. I decided to solve that problem by making it easier to sort them. It does exactly what I want it to because it can successfully separate everything that it sees. It can separate all 3 types of rubbish- general waste, recyclables and organics. However, I am definitely hoping to achieve more with my project.

2^nd

Robo-i-Patch

By Jethro Newitt, Laurie Wright, Emily Bell

Waimea Heights Primary School

Did you know that there is a problem that half of the world population will be affected by short sightedness by 2050/ We have made a Robo eye patch for people with short-sightedness in one eye. We are making a cool eye patch with Microbit.

3^rd

Mindful Music

By Kaylee Brown, Haylee Rothall

Paralowie R-12 School

Mindful Music is a project that helps kids calm down and practice mindfulness.

Year 5 – 6

1^st

Dry Time

By Isabelle Hung

Canberra Girls Grammar School (Junior School)

My project is a machine that dries your snow jacket and pants. You will hang snow jackets or pants inside the machine for a preset time while you have lunch and when you come back, you will have your snow jacket and or pants warmed and dried ready for another session of skiing.

2^nd

Smart Airport Quick Stop Zone

By Akshat Shah

East Adelaide School

I made this project ‘Smart Airport Quick Stop Zone’ to decrease traffic congestion in the airport drop off / pick up zone and let the other cars easily find a free drop off / pick up space. This project is powered by Arduino

3^rd

The Urchin Games

By Tom Coward, Cameron Phillips

Waimea Heights Primary School

Our project is about sea urchins and how their diet can destroy the ecosystem. Their diet wrecks the ecosystem because the urchins eat so much kelp, and many species of fish depend on kelp for food sources, homes and camouflage. Our project will educate young scientists about the effects of urchins. We have made an urchin tapping game which is interactive and fun.

Year 7 – 8

1^st Place

Smart Recycling

By Caleb Tang

Prince Alfred College

My project is a multifunctional way of sorting and recycling seemingly useless rubbish. First, a Bluetooth controlled Arduino garbage truck will collect your everyday rubbish. This unique vehicle will charge wirelessly as it is getting your rubbish, and the driver won’t even need to be there! Things like metal, plastic and wood will go through before being separated by factors such as size and material. This is important because after it is correctly separated, recycling the materials for different purposes will be much easier. This invention utilizes wireless capabilities and A.I. to successfully save money, resources and time.

Year 9 -10

1^st Place

iLearn

By Jasmine Jared

Rangitoto College

Artificial intelligence (AI) app to help learn foreign languages.

Imagine during your walk you see people playing basketball and you want to know how to describe what you see in Chinese as it is a step towards learning the language.

The answer is simple: start ILearn, take a picture of the scene with your device’s camera and the application will describe what is on the picture in your chosen language/s (Chinese, English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese).

In our case with the basketball game, the app could say something like: “people playing basketball” in English and Chinese.

It could also help some people in their understanding of their native language.

2^nd Place

Claritas – Progress made simple

By Lana Zhang, Tyler Young

Rangitoto College

Claritas is an online platform that allows students to view their own academic history and create goals from their successes and mistakes, while also being notified of any upcoming events or assignments of the student. The platform will feature the student’s own unique academic radar chart, reflecting progress in academic studies, tools to help students create their own goals, view and encourage class peers’ academic progress and various other features to make Claritas an essential for a student.

This product will be targeted at secondary school students and would be available to those with an email account. Students will be able to enter manually enter in their assignments’ results per subject into Claritas termly and will be able to have a clear visual of their learning journey. With Claritas, we hope to encourage self growth, punctuality, preparation and goal setting in our young people.

3^rd Place

Type it

By Jessica Wang

Rangitoto College

My project is a fun and engaging way for people to learn to type faster. It has the form of a game so that learning while using it will be less boring.

Year 11 -12

1^st Place

Planetarium: Survival of the Fittest

By James Owen

Gungahlin College

This project hopes to achieve a simulation of creatures thriving and surviving in biomes against each other, in the form of a functional and enjoyable game. Via a complex understanding of genetic algorithms, speciation, and the geographical barriers between biomes, Planetarium shows how creatures divided can thrive.

The creatures in Planetarium are created via genetic algorithms understanding and analyzing the beneficial traits within biomes. These creatures in their respective biomes then compete in their fields to progress on and have their species continue their lineage, with the best species not having to evolve much at all. But species which are forced to change could always turn the tide of history, and become stronger than their forefathers…

2^nd Place

Text to speech with Viterbi

By Pinak Limaye

Gungahlin College

My project is a text to speech bot using a Hidden Markov Model and the viterbi algorithm to say sentences and words. I hope to achieve a fairly accurate saying of the words and sentences you put in.

3^rd Place

PyWatch and Formula

By Stephan Kashkarov

Gungahlin College

My Project is a low-cost self-designed smartwatch programmed in micropython. This watch is to be used as a low-cost alternative to products such as the apple watch and its fully open-source allowing for electronics enthusiasts to make their own for free (apart from parts). All elements of the watch are self-designed from the case to the electronics and code. All topped off with a UI framework much similar to the JS framework React. This framework allows for Third party Apps to be created with ease. Together with an external app store this would provide all the functionality of an Apple watch at a much lower cost.

Year 3 – 4

1^st Place

Project Team Safe Biking

By Molly Ireland, Jayde Milhinch, Lalana Lawrance, Ryan O’Donovan

Ashfield Primary School

We have been running a program in our school called Your Move which is encouraging students to walk or ride to school. To integrate this into our YICT project, we have been developing an idea that wirelessly connects bike helmets to a bike through sensors. This will encourage children to wear a helmet as their bike will not physically move if the wireless connection is not made.

2^nd Place

OWL M.I.N.D.

By Stella Langlands, Nina Prado

Perth College

Our invention is called the Owl M.I.N.D.(Memory Intake and Nurturing Device). It is a device that improves the life of people with Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease. The Owl M.I.N.D has two parts the – a small interactive computer tablet and the electronic identification band that the person wears. The Owl M.I.N.D will be a personal assistant. The small tablet will have an app that will: remind the patients of their loved ones, have pictures of things and people that they love, remind them when to take medication, show video messages, record video diaries, plays favorite songs, tell when to take medication, connect to doctor and call in case of an emergency. The band will remind the patient not to walk away without the device.

3^rd Place

Robo Bin

By Millie Griffith, Bianca Caruso

Perth College

People who are elderly or disabled can’t take their bins out to the kerb or bring them back in. Our project is called Robo Bin. Robo Bin is an autonomous bin which is able to wheel itself in and out from the drive way. It will be moved and controlled through a phone app.

Year 5 -6

1^st Place

COT Detector

Sophia Way, Chloe O’ Donoghue, Scarlett Ford

Perth College

Our project is about stopping Crown of Thorns Starfish destroying the Great Barrier Reef using Artificial Intelligence. There will be cameras in different locations along the Great Barrier Reef. We have trained IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence program to help to detect the whereabouts of the Crown of Thorns. When the Artificial Intelligence sees a Crown of Thorns Starfish scar (a bright white coloring on the coral that fades after a day) it will then alert the scientists. In addition, it is powered by mud. Mud is a renewable energy source. The microbes eat up the mud and then they emit electrodes. This works by there being Microbes in the mud that travel through the anode and cathode, to where they wait in the capacitator until they are needed as energy.

2^nd Place

The Heaternator

By Izzy Rhoder, Daniel Ecker, Kieran Wilders, Robbert Gallon

Yanchep Beach Primary School

The heaternator is designed to assist people who are paraplegic, disabled and/or suffer from congenital analgesia. We have designed a solution to help these people gain more independence during bath time at home. We have designed a solution for these medical problems by programming a lego mindstorm to sense when the water in a bath is at a comfortable temperature. The bath will be automatically filled allowing these people to have a private bath without the need for a carer unless medically required. This sensor will have sound alert to inform the user when the bath temperature is ready for usage so that occupants can be safe, independent and comfortable.

3^rd Place

Protecto Shield

By Lucy Miller, Lara Salter

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls

*Protecto Shield* solves the problem of having to go outside when it suddenly starts raining to bring in the washing from the line. A raindrop sensor will sense the first drops of rain falling on your washing and activate the *Protecto Shield* which will cover your washing, keeping it nice and dry. You will never have your washing ruined by rain again!

Year 7 – 8

1^st Place

BettaBee

By Jade Lawrance

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls

This project utilises sensors to select flowers to technologically pollinate. The BettaBee is a flying drone combined with a 3D printed model that has colour sensors and a pollen retaining exterior; this allows it to pollinate flowers quickly and efficiently. It will be able to sense the colour of a flower, enter the flower and collect the pollen before moving to the next flower and repeating these steps, thus spreading the pollen throughout a plantation. The hope of this project is to minimise the impact caused by the extinction of bees from our planet.

2^nd Place

Flood Flash – Seek and Rescue

By Georgia Strickling, Isabeau van der Kooy, Alexendra Verkerk

Rehoboth Christian College

For our project we are using two Microbits to create a remote-controlled vehicle. It is going to be a small flotation device with small water wheels to generate movement. We hope to achieve a faster, safer and more secure way to rescue people from floods. The devices have cameras on them and so when they find flood victims in need of help, they can send a dispatch unit to get them.

3^rd Place

PhotoSynthesis

By Akira Hunter, Samuel Santosh, Joash Gweja

Rehoboth Christian College

Our project is called Photosynthesis for a reason. We created an app for users’ gardens which provides management to your garden and primarily functions as a watering tool. This app also educates people through means of our ‘Plant Database’ which can be utilized for you to grow your own garden. It encourages users to grow their own plants, discovers how to grow it and be waterwise in the process.

Year 9 -10

1^st Place

Bin It Right – Waste Management App

By Lucy Lonnqvist, Poppy Briggs

St Mary’s Anglican Girls School

Bin It Right aims to solve the problem of improper waste disposal with its unique photo recognition feature. This feature allows users to simply take a photo of the item they are unsure what bin it belongs in, and our app then scans the image, and indicates whether the item belongs in the green, waste or recycling bin. Bin It Right is designed for anybody having trouble determining where to put their rubbish and looking for a quick and convenient solution. Every time people use Bin It Right, they become increasingly sustainable towards the environment, and minimise the level of landfill and pollution in Australia.

2^nd Place

Ionaville Smart City

By Jillian Morris, Erin Howard, Alyxandria Higham, Claudia Truran

Iona Presentation College

Our project is a prototype of a Smart City, which we have been learning about this semester. We built it in order to understand how technology is and can be used in. We started by using technology that we were familiar with. We began with the Arduino traffic light system, which is something that already exists in towns and cities, but added the accessibility element to ensure that our city is as accessible to as many people as possible. Then, after learning about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, we decided to add the bin, which fits with goal number 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, in that it would hopefully help reduce litter on the streets. We then added our micro:bit projects, which allowed us to explore how networks could be used in Smart Cities and also allowed us to improve the lifestyle and accessibility of our Smart City.

3^rd Place

Sentinel

By Thomas Morton, Dalton Briggs, Sebastian Darr

Lumen Christi College

Our project was inspired by the eleventh United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’, which includes security and surveillance. Security is typically undertaken by humans, which is inefficient and costly. Proper surveillance cannot be maintained by a single human, as they are not capable of checking everywhere at the same time, making for ineffective surveillance. Our solution is Sentinel is a security network consisting of many interconnected modules. The network effectively detects intrusion. It is targeted at institutions, organisations and corporations and is designed to maintain a constant watch on the entire area. The network detects intrusion using minimal resources. The system scans for motion and thermal and if detected, deploys a bot to scout the area. The scout-bot pursues intruders and transmits footage to authorities. Sentinel collects real time data on the time and place of intrusions as well as potential hotspots.

Year 11 -12

1^st Place

Prodigy Evolved

By Patrick Morton, John Padua, Zachary Rodrigues

Lumen Christi College

We have returned with an evolution of the previous iteration of our project; Prodigy Evolved. The Project has advanced to attract a larger consumer base. This year, the Project has developed to increase the functionality and connectivity, along with a fully working prototype. The main focus of our Project is to have a digital product that collects data for the User on clean and renewable energy. The target audience is those who want to move into the future with technology and the future of renewable energy. The Project is using an Arduino Mega, with an ethernet shield with the ability to connect wirelessly in the client’s home. Our Application includes a web interface to facilitate information transfer between User and home to give complete control of the system, shaping energy consumption to match their personal preference. With the introduction of new technologies and the development of a functioning Application we can now present the future of home automation. We aim to solve the Sustainable Development Goal of clean and affordable energy by attempting to conserve the non-renewable energy that is used to power everything. Prodigy Evolved is the future that will help preserve our world until an efficient renewable source of energy is developed.

Student Choice

Gate Mate

By Poppy Aristei, Angelie Lakshmi Narayan, Alessia Radici, Sofia Samie

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls

The *Gate Mate* is an electronically controlled gate that can prevent small children from going into the kitchen (or anywhere else that might be dangerous) and injuring themselves. It will keep them away from dangerous appliances. It will help parents who will no longer have to watch their children like an eagle! We will be using Arduino components to develop our project – USD sensors, motor, button switch, piezo element. We will be 3D printing our unique *Gate Mate* gate.

Year 3 – 4

1^st Place

Bullying? Be Smart, Don’t Start

Jessica Schutz, Eloise Crocker

Ryan Catholic College

It is a game is to stop cyberbullying. So this game will teach kids how to be nice. This game will teach kids to tell the difference between nice words and bad words

2^nd Place

The Cyber Bullying game

Tiarna Edwards

Heatley State School

Our project is a game that teaches you about cyberbullying. It might help bullied students stand up for themselves and be safe. We made it for students to have fun and learn. The game is also part of our entry in the Queensland Premier’s Coding Challenge.

Year 5 -6

1^st Place

Plantology

Amelie Havenaar

The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

How often to you replace that indoor plant which through neglect is destined so a slow and painful death? Instead of a beautiful, lush plant in the corner of a room bringing life, there is a blank space where the plant used to be.

Plantology is all about keeping these plants alive. Providing fertiliser, water and uv light, Plantology can ensure that that corner of your room is always bright, green and alive.

2^nd Place

Laser Safe

William Sargent, Liam Mackay, Braith McDonald

Ryan Catholic College

We have created a project that will prevent children entering pool areas without supervision. One of the big problems with pools is that children sometimes are able to open gates or climb over. We are programming an Arduino laser tripwire to set off an alarm every time the gate is opened or the fence is climbed over. If a child climbs over the pool fence and the laser on the fence has one moments disruption from the photo resistor the alarm will go.

3^rd Place

Blinkers on Bikes

Heidi Zahn, Summer Mason

The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

Cycling is a very popular past time however the safety of cyclists as they use the road with other vehicles is always in the news. Changing lanes and turning corners is a very important part of getting somewhere, and currently to do so, cyclists must let go of their handlebars and hold their arm out as indication. This is not a safe riding practice, and often as the cyclist gets closer to the corner, they have to grab onto the handlebars to steer. They are no longer indicating and motorists may not be aware that they are turning. Blinkers on Bikes will provide all bikes to opportunity to have an indication system to provide safer cycling for all.

Year 7 -8

1^st Place

Handi-CAB

Ethan Schutz, Charlie Crocker

Ryan Catholic College

At our school we have a number of students that are unable to carry heavy backpacks. In the community, there are also a number of elderly or disabled people that can not carry heavy items. Our idea, to help with this, is to design an automated device that can carry bags, shopping or any other items that are not easily carried. Our design is called the Handi-CAB (Carry A Bag). This device is powered by Arduino, constructed with a metal frame and has wheels to help maintain smooth and easy movement. We hope that our project, the Handi-CAB, will ease the lives of the elderly and disabled.

2^nd Place

Our School

Estella Johnston, Sarah Robinson

St Patrick’s College Townsville

Our project is to display our school, St Patrick’s College, from a strand view. When we were designing our project, we didn’t intend to have things moving so we defiantly achieved more than we hoped. Our goal was to capture the beauty of my school alongside the beautiful beach.

3^rd Place

Our City Townsville

Olivia Marr, Eliza Carter

St Patrick’s College Townsville

Our project is the Townsville Brewery on Flinders Street, we hoped to achieve a cycle that goes from day to night. We also hoped that we achieved animation and making it interesting and something most student would know and what other people weren’t doing in our class.

Year 9 -10

1^st Place

Digital Greetings

Poppy Crawford

St Patrick’s College Townsville

Our project is an interactive, animated, digital “greeting card” for a wedding using a “p5.js web editor.” We aimed to create an entertaining, unique card while using a wide range of coding. We wanted to create a greeting card that would wish someone a happy birthday. We wanted the card to be interactive to make it more interesting. We were also create an interactive Christmas card that would be simple yet interesting to the eye.

2^nd Place

Fantasy & Magic

Kirsten Jorgensen

St Patrick’s College Townsville

We wanted to design an interactive media about Fantasy & Magic. We wanted to achieve a scene that changes to different times during the day. To also put different moving characters.

Year 11 -12

1^st Place

ARcade

Javier Santacatterina, Joel Brunner, Charlie Michael, Sean Rogers

Tec-NQ

This was a team project produced to demonstrate how Augmented Reality could be used in education to gather information in a physical manner, getting students away from the computer and exercising while learning. Another use is identifying safety signage around the campus, as safety is the number one concern at Tec-NQ. The game is installed onto a phone running an Android Operating System, it uses the onboard camera to scan all surfaces for target images. If the game detects a target image it will pop up a 3D animation/object with information for the student to gather and retain. Score and time is kept.

2^nd Place

Firebug II – the rise of the firebugs

Jackson Lord, Hayden Kelly

Townsville State High School

A device to be created that can be part of a network to communicate with other similar devices and detect fires.

3^rd Place

Mineral Oil Submerged Computing

Kallum Heard

Tec-NQ

This Product Prototype is a Mineral Oil Submerged Computer. While this has been made and done many times before, this project idea is to endeavor and research into using mineral oil as a cooling solution as well as to provide information on other cooling solutions in the

various technology-based Industries in addition to a look into ideas regarding the submergence of enterprise servers. This idea will be called Project MOSES (Mineral Oil Submerged Enterprise Servers). The product that will be constructed is a Proof of concept (PoC) design.

Student Choice

Plantology

Amelie Havenaar

The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

How often to you replace that indoor plant which through neglect is destined so a slow and painful death? Instead of a beautiful, lush plant in the corner of a room bringing life, there is a blank space where the plant used to be.

Plantology is all about keeping these plants alive. Providing fertiliser, water and uv light, Plantology can ensure that that corner of your room is always bright, green and alive.

Year 3 – 4

1^st Place

Auto Shade

Min Xin Sim, Alannah Nguyen

Camelot Rise Primary School

Our project is named Auto Shade. This is an effective shade or blind that roll up/down automatically when the weather changes.

We have chosen this project, as we know the weather is a very unpredictable aspect in life and we humans are required to adapt to the change on a daily basis. There is a common household problem such as when clothes are being hung out to dry but the weather takes a turn. As a result, a lot of people have chosen to dry their clothes in a dryer. As we know this is not environmental friendly as it consumes a lot of electricity in order to fully dry up the clothing.

2^nd Place

Rubbish Ninja

Benjamin Shatokhin

Doncaster Gardens Primary School

The project is an online game called “Rubbish Ninja”. The aim of the game is to educate and encourage young children to recognize and sort the rubbish into the Red (General waste), Yellow (Recycle) and Green (Organics waste) wheelie bin.

This is to create awareness at an early age the importance to take care of the environment and keeping their planet clean.

3^rd Place

Sea It Rise

Liam Byrne, Harry Tasker

Rowellyn Park Primary School

We are coding a 4 level game to help kids understand the effects of global warming on sea levels. As Earth is warming up, so are our oceans, causing them to take up more space and rise. Over the last 100 years, the average sea level around the world has risen by nearly 17 cm. This means coastal land could be flooded. Level 1 there is carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) trying to melt an iceberg. You have to move a solar panel to protect the iceberg. Level 2 there is greenhouse gases flying in the air, you need to help the sun dodge 2 rows of them and get to safety. Level 3 the water level is rising! To save the houses you need to hit all the water droplets to stop them. The final level is a maze with moving greenhouse gases, controlling the sun you must avoid the gases and escape.

Year 5 – 6

1^st Place

Aquarator – A mobile self-contained water aerator and reporting device

Lawson Gallup, Gabrielle Simcox

Auburn South Primary School

Disturbed at seeing fish in the Murray Darling commit belly up, we were inspired to create our invention ‘Aquerator’. This is a mobile self-sustaining water aerator, designed to aerate stagnant river systems by providing oxygen to dying fish, and is also a solution to algae detection. Our environmentally friendly robot will use the Suns energy to propel itself.

2^nd Place

Bit Collar

Sienna Williams, Nelson Wyant, Genevieve Giles Knopp

Albert Park Primary School

Our overall project is animal cruelty. The project we are working on at the moment is to help stop animal starvation. It is a collar that tells people around the animal with it on to feed the pet. It does this at 21 degrees because when animals get hot they become hungry.

3^rd Place

Cave Ranger

Ron Cameron, Samantha Worrall, Alexandra Tasker

Rowellyn Park Primary School

We created Cave Ranger, a topography pup to help map a cave and receive back to base data about the inside of a cave. Data readings include distance of walls (ultrasonic sensor), amount of light in the cave (light sensor), ground angles (gyroscope sensor). We have coded an on/off button, movement (forwards, backwards, turn etc), sensor readings and light colour changes accrding to movement. The purpose of our cave ranger is for situations like cave rescues (such as the Thai boys stuck in 2018), planning for cave explorers, scientific studies (animal habitats,) and cave preservation. The sensors on board the cave ranger provides information, while our 3D printed camera stand we connected allows it to have an onboard camera. Using screen mirroring, we can see the cave in real time.

Merit

Sun Fun Buddy

Alicia Jenkins, Mia Hayden Brooks, Angel Vasisht, Mrithika Suresh Kumar

Wyndham Vale Primary School

Our project is about saving lives that are at risk to cancer. Our project is like an app that beeps when a re-application is required to ensure you put on sunscreen. This will benefit many people. If you want help choosing the proper clothing we will have a recommendation based on weather and UV rays. It will also be able to check for melanoma. It will hopefully be very helpful to helping people catch and prevent skin cancer! Our project is about melanoma and preventing it!

Year 7 – 8

1^st Place

Smart Plant Pot

Michael Kwai, Michael Liang, Christian Lam, William Shen

Haileybury College Newlands

2^nd Place

Musical Props

Stefan Mavrikos, Liam Davies, Mattias Wingate, Archie Baker

Haileybury College Newlands

3^rd Place

Autonomous Roller Blinds

Pang Yang Thai

Aerobotics Global

The Autonomous Roller Blinds (ARB) is a machine in which autonomously opens and closes the blinds at set times and by voice command as well. It hopes to be able to prevent humans the trouble to close them manually like the motion sensor lights.

Merit

Avenge the Fallen

Connor Bradlington

Doveton College

I am making a set of Avengers tools for show, however, the Bucky Barn can be used for actual people missing a limb. I hoped to make Captain America shield that comes back to you as well as a working Infinity gauntlet, an Ironman helmet and a Bucky Barn arm. I have been using Scratch to create the projects and am looking to make my projects more portable and wireless, if possible.

Year 9-10

1^st Place

Drive-Safe Key Box

Ryan Xie, Jake Aronleigh

Aerobotics Global

The Drive-Safe Keybox is a project were we aim to achieve a compact alcohol detector that holds the keys to someone’s car, this is to help prevent and discourage users from drunk driving as they would be physically restricted from accessing their keys. We aim to reduce the amount of casualties and injuries on the road due to drink driving by stopping people from using their keys when they are intoxicated but without compromising the convenience and compactness of the car key.

2^nd Place

Virtual Racing

Joseph Smith, Aran Bharathan, Nathan Stephenson, Ryan Seymour

Haileybury College Newlands

Virtual reality HPV vehicle which can be used to help students who can’t reach HPV. An example is Haileybury is getting a Darwin campus and they can’t come down to do HPV so they can use this program to “drive” their vehicle. This can also be changed to help doing tour of France a cycling event which can help pros get ready for the trip

Year 11 -12

1^st Place

Bye Bye Bias

William Zhang, Ryan Kam, Saurabh Jhanjee, Ryan Kua

Haileybury College Newlands

To solve the problem of confirmation bias, we decided, for the backend, to use a neural network in python to determine the strength of articles using target dependent sentiment analysis and their topic using unsupervised clustering. They were then stored in a mysql database which we queried from a chrome extension we decided to develop. This chrome extension was to be used in conjunction with a set of data we chose, representing several issues with valid opinions on both the affirmative and negative. When viewing an article on an appropriate topic, the extension would become a pop-up on the bottom of the screen illustrating on a histogram the article’s position on the spectrum of opinions on the topic.

2^nd Place

Floor cleaning robot

Mitchell Young, Nathan Fitzpatrick, Liam Maloney

Northern Bay P-12 College

We will be making a floor cleaning robot designed on Arduino software and hardware. Our team consists of Nathan, Liam and Mitchell. We are aiming at elderly people and those who are busy and may not have time to clean a spill or their floors. Our robot will be used in homes with floorboards and tiles. Our robot will include an ultrasonic sensor, a motor, batteries, a power bank, a brush and a scrub pad. The robot will be playing music on a speaker and when the robot has finished cleaning, the music will stop.

3^rd Place

Home security system

Tommi Dancey

Northern Bay P-12 College

I am designing a home security system, for people who leave the house and also who don’t like to spend too much on a home security system to keep their house safe from thieves. My design will be used in a standard house, business location, anywhere security system can and will be used. The design is going to include a mechanical servo to move the camera around, a camera with enough storage to record the footage until movement has not been detected after a certain time and multiple sensors that (when tripped) Move the camera to the point of interest.

Student Choice

Stop Racism

Olivia Kringoudis, Charlotte Brodie, Chloe Field

Albert Park Primary School 

Our project is about helping support kids who are experiencing racism at school. We will do this by making the level of courage and joy higher through supportful quotes.

Year 3 – 4

FIRST PLACE

Aully

Harishen Thyaganathan, Jamie Kotrlik, Alex Clarkson

Ironside State School

Our project helps elderly, sick or blind people in the shopping centre. It is a trolley that is automated and stop from crashing. It also has a button that alerts staff if something goes wrong and can find a place an elderly person wants to go.

SECOND PLACE

Code a Coop

Darcy Bryan, Thomas Clune, Thomas Stute, Lewis Mather

Oakleigh State School

Our project is based around our community’s wish to keep chickens at our school. We collected data from our community about the perceived problems that would arise if we did this and have prototyped some solutions. Microbit technologies have been used along with Scratch coding. Augmented reality has been also used to present to our community our solutions.

THIRD PLACE

Aller-trician

Ephraim Goka-Sedzi, Ezekiel Tsoi

Good News Lutheran School

Our project is a digital solution will help people who have friends or relatives with food allergies. We are creating an app that can scan barcodes use augmented reality so people who have allergies or have a relative that has allergies will be able to scan this. Then they will be able to buy or purchase safe foods for the other relatives or friends.

MERIT

Preventing Bullying

Piper Gebhard, Mikayla Liu, Yoyo Qi

Sunnybank Hills State School

Our project is about preventing bullying, because no one should face bullying alone. No one deserves to be bullied. It should be a problem that was solved ages ago. If you have been bullied then make your voice be heard! We are hoping that our project will be a big success! It is a stopmotion film / minigame dedicated to stop bullying.

Year 5 – 6

FIRST PLACE

Super Smart Sprinkler

Lucy Clark, Sonia Agarwal, Evie Schroder, Ruby Rowe, Diego Caladiao, Nicholas Kennedy

East Brisbane State School

Recently we have noticed that our oval has started to dry out and to address the problem we have decided to design a super smart sprinkler to our school oval to keep it healthy and green. The goal of this project is to prevent the oval from drying out and help our groundskeeper with his daily chores while learning about the many pieces of tech used. Our super smart sprinkler uses an Arduino and several sensors (Water flow, motion, water depth, weather and moisture sensors) to determine when and when not to turn on the sprinkler. It saves water by keeping it in storage until needed.

SECOND PLACE

Sleep Alive Monitor

Dylan Paschkewitz, Gavin Ekanayake, Bhavya Goyal, Bhasu Madala

Ironside State School

S.A.M is an affordable, useful device that can detect unusual patterns while you’re sleeping using pulse oximetry and heart rate monitoring. Our device will be wearable like a wristband. It will detect whether oxygen has dropped or the heart rate is abnormal using an audible alert to self and/or carer.

THIRD PLACE

Hush for Harold

Dominic James

Ironside State School

I’m building a project that gives a friendly reminder to people to be quiet in the classroom. It tells the teacher who is being noisy and can make them be quieter by showing a sad face on a little screen and putting a reminder up.

MERIT AWARD

Plastic Pollution Prevention

Chloe Kyprios, Halle Anderson, Deepika Bogahawatta

Good News Lutheran School

P-Cubed’s free multi-platform app, Plastic Pollution Prevention, helps young people consider how much single-use plastic theyconsume and its environmental impacts. We have designed our app with 3 unique features: it allows users to record and track the quantity of plastic used; it gives an alert and targeted suggestions when plastic usage reaches a threshold; and it has been designed specifically for young people. Our app aims to encourage the responsible consumption of plastics at the point of use. By doing this we hope to reduce the 8 million tonnes of plastic that flows into the world’s waterways, oceans and landfill each year.

Year 7 – 8

FIRST PLACE

Grammar Heart

Finn Barry-Smith, Tristan Barry-Smith

Sunshine Coast Grammar School

We have created a website that provides a connection between students and staff at our school, which allows students to complete short surveys at any time. These surveys contain questions under the headings “My School Work” and “My Wellbeing”. They can be submitted as often as the student likes, and can be filled in either with student’s name attached, or anonymously, for the students that don’t feel comfortable identifying themselves, or if the information is sensitive or embarrassing. The answers are then sent to a database, where the teachers can log in and read them, and approach the student directly, or through general class discussions if anonymous.

SECOND PLACE

SociaBuild

Bourne Chang, Drew Elgar

Indooroopilly State High School

Our project is about helping people improve their social skills by using a website called SociaBuild which includes a friendship tip generator that generates random tips on being social and anything else that’s in the topic of helping people being social (we don’t want to spoil the awesome features in the website so that’s all we can explain!).

THIRD PLACE

Smart Pads

Akemi Evans, James McCarthy, Kalani Serell, Boden Walker

Nambour State College

Our project involves making game controllers aimed for people with a physical disability, to allow them to experience the entertainment that computers games provide. We have designed a controller based around Makey Makey that incorporates the use of large buttons, which can be used by people with limited mobility. In addition to this we have a concept around creating games which have other inputs, such as voice commands and visual commands through the use of webcams.

Year 9 – 10

FIRST PLACE

Rover

Kai Sean Ng

Kenmore State High School

My project is an open-ended programming puzzle game. You play as a NASA engineer programming mars rover. Program JavaScript code and deploy it to rovers to complete research tasks (Collecting data, soil samples, etc.). I hoped to achieve a game that’s goal is to teach people about code, programming concepts and problem solving.

SECOND PLACE

ARC (Autonomous Rubbish Collector)

Thomas Webling, Jallan Ferris

Indooroopilly State High School

ARC is a compact, reliable robot designed to collect litter and other discarded objects. Designed to require virtually no human intervention, it was hope that it could provide a solution to the issue of the prevalence of litter in the school setting.

THIRD PLACE

Auslan Gesture Translator

Lachlan Khor, Fletcher Adams, Alexei Delinicolis

Our device will aid in the reading and translation of gestures used in Auslan so that Australians will be able to work out the sign language used by the deaf to communicate. The device enables the gestures used to be translated and displayed so that it can be read by anyone, thereby aiding in the communication with deaf Australians.

MERIT

Too Cool

Bailey Pinder, Justin Bensted, Jasmine Rooke, Stella Boddington

Kingston State College

We designed, created and coded a device to give a visual representation of the ambient temperature in a room. The device aims to provide users with an efficient method of determining whether a room is too hot or cold without the need for reading a thermometer. In the case of extreme heat, the device also triggers a fan to cool down the immediate area.

Year 11 -12

FIRST PLACE

Software controlled Pneumatic Robotic

Joshua Beaman

Centenary State High School

My project is a pneumatic animatronic entertainer, fitted with modern show control technology. My robot is a life-sized guitar player that mimics the movements of a real guitar player, programmed to an audio track. I had aimed to create and control a humanoid structure that would be controlled as effectively as possible by relatively in-expensive materials and techniques.

SECOND PLACE

Drone Mapping Simulator

Oliver Strong, Kai Matolat

Indooroopilly State High School

In this project we hope to achieve a method of mapping the world using a drone. This can make inspection of areas cheaper and safer. It uses a bare metal application running on a raspberry pi 3 to capture maps using a LiDAR sensor. In the case of mines where explosives were used to clear an area it’s very unsafe to use a human to be in that area of the mine. A drone that relays live data to the operator’s computer or android device is the safest way to analyses an area. A voxel engine has been developed to interoperate the data incoming from the Raspberry Pi. This can be displayed in real time.

THIRD PLACE

Meal Deals

Sam Behm, Jakob Ternel

Villanova College

MealDeal is a non-for-profit project that aims to help small restaurants and business’ in the ever-growing hospitality industry. With such a competitive market, it is often hard for new organisations to grow and introduce potential customers to the exciting environment, product, and deals they provide – we aim to fix that. The project is multi-platform, pertaining to the website and the mobile app. The website has been created to introduce new users to the concept, as well as allow restaurants to sign up for free and post information about themselves and the deals they have to offer. The app is mainly for the customer and provides more in-depth search functionalities. For the new user, the app uses their location to find restaurants and deals in their area. For a user who has previously used the app, it will recommend them deals based on their previous history.

Student Choice

Aller-trician

Ephraim Goka-Sedzi, Ezekiel Tsoi

Good News Lutheran School

Our project is a digital solution will help people who have friends or relatives with food allergies. We are creating an app that can scan barcodes use augmented reality so people who have allergies or have a relative that has allergies will be able to scan this. Then they will be able to buy or purchase safe foods for the other relatives or friends.

Student Choice

BeeBookSmart

Ainsley Evans, Isobel Craig, Bridgett Ndayizeye

Mount Gravatt East

We are creating an android app that can be used in our library to help children choose a suitable book for reading. The app will contain print and video book reviews done by individual students, staff and classes at our school. We will also have an interactive display screen for students to vote for the most popular book of the week using a micro-bit and LED star ratings.