Tasmania
Year 3 – 4
First Place
Plant Carer
Lily Francesconi, Kateryna Tkachuk
Waimea Heights Primary School
The problem we are solving is that plants dying because their owners are busy and don’t know when the plants are dry and need to be watered. The Plant Carer uses 2 Microbits, one will sense when the soil is dry and then send an alert the other Microbit that it is time to water the plant.
Second Place
Pollution Busters
Alex Giannakopoulos, Lucas Hutchins, Jack Dalla-Fontana
Waimea Heights Primary School
Around our school we’ve been noticing a lot of litter, both in the playground and also around our community. To help solve this we have set up a studio in scratch and have made some games to help educate people about land pollution. We will be designing a controller for our games using materials and a Makey Makey.
Third Place
Mr Lost & Found
Poppy Tomlin, Poppy Davies
Waimea Heights Primary School
Are you one of those people who loses things? We are making a QR code that you can iron or stick on to your clothes, lunch box or drink bottle. Someone might pick it up, scan the QR code with their phone camera and will be taken to a website called Mr Lost and Found. All that you have to do is go onto our website and fill in your details and we will complete your order and give a QR for your stuff.
Year 5 – 6
First Place
Bin there done that
Elizabeth Faulkner, Annameika Nethery, Riona Gamboa, Ella Parsell
Waimea Heights Primary School
Wishcycling is a big problem around the world, it is when people put non-recyclables in a recycling bin because they’re trying to do good. This means that rubbish that isn’t supposed to be in the recycling bin gets thrown away by the sorters and into landfill, polluting our environment. Our idea is to make a bin sensor with a microbit, GroveShield, and a Ultrasonic ranger.
Second Place
Smiley Distancing
Coco Pavlides, Eve Ward, Jasper Chen
Waimea Heights Primary School
Our Group is creating a badge that senses how close you are to somebody else. We made the badge so it looks like a smiley face hence “Smiley Distance”. During the Covid-19 pandemic the issue of social distancing has been crucial to how we fight the disease. We found social distancing regulations are being ignored often. We are using an Ultrasonic Ranger to sense the distance between to people, The Micro:bit attached to the Ultrasonic Ranger will flash or beep so you will be able to tell when you’re not social distancing
Third Place
Porch Pioneer
Arlo Schnierer, Marv Freeman, Horatio Taylor
Waimea Heights Primary School
Have you ever had a package delivered to your house which was then stolen? Porch Pirates (Package Thieves) are stealing packages off people’s porches! To filming like a ring doorbell but ours records the last 10 seconds before motion is detected.
Year 11 – 12
First Place
Robocall Deterrent Device
Flynn Dobson, Isabella Spindler, Mason Porter
Launceston College
The Robocall Deterrent Device (RDD for short) is a device aimed at defending the elderly and less tech-savvy from scam robocalls. Once a scammer has lured in a victim, it is near impossible to convince them they have been fooled, due to our stubborn nature as humans, therefore our device means to cut off these scams at their roots.
Through chips such as a Bluetooth mobile handsfree call chip, a mobile keypad input receival chip, an MP3 player chip, and a memory chip, we will assemble a device that will connect to a phone with Bluetooth and play an audio recording with a series of numbers that must be entered to prove the caller is a human before passing the call through. Our device will also be able to block phone numbers from calling by allowing the owner to enter them on a keypad and see blocked numbers on a screen.
Second Place
Weather Station
Aidyn Maroney, Tyler Bunford, Ryan De Haan, Eng Subba
This project will tell you the current temperature, humidity, air pressure, and time.
Third Place
Bluetooth Car Adapter
Ethan Roberts, Ayden Phillips, Jaidan Strochnetter, Ram Cung
Launceston College
First world problem, how can you listen to your favourite beats on radio with no Bluetooth, so here it is a Bluetooth car adapter so you can have Bluetooth in your car anytime you want.
