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
1st Place Equal: Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with A Little Hand (by Paris McMahon)
1st Place Equal: Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Scratch Projects (by Emily Turner)
2nd Place: Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Childhood Obesity Animation (Minecraft) (by Emily Turner, Laura Cockerill and Sophie-Rose Eccles)
3rd 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
1st Place: Canberra Grammar School with Reduce Your Emissions (by Thomas Faulder and Timothy Muya)
2nd Place: Canberra Grammar School with Code Clinic (by Jaxon Kneipp and Damian Camilleri)
2nd Place: Canberra Grammar School with Crunch (by George Dan)
3rd Place Equal: Canberra Grammar School with Class Timetable (by Shobhit Bajpai)
3rd Place Equal: St Clare’s College with Selfless (by Alexandra Black)
3rd Place Equal: Canberra Grammar School with Tech>How (by Forbes Mailler and Harrison Bergman)
Year 9 – 10
1st Place: Canberra Grammar School with Geburtstag (by Christopher Seidl, Benjamin Maliel and Ben McLean)
2nd Place: St Clare’s College with ACT Avoid (by Emily Macaulay, Mia Bueno and Madeline Buddee)
Year 11 -12
1st Place: St Francis Xavier College with Smart Soccer (by Nathan Potter, Alexander Cavalli and Jordan Haddrick)
2nd Place: Canberra College with Voice and Motion-Controlled Bluetooth Robot (by Claudia Schipp, Ted Pettigrove, Adam Rowland and Jonothan Rehn)
3rd 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)
