Announcing our Aussie Student Inventions winners!
We recently conducted a nationwide search for the next generation of inventors. Find out the winners, as decided by our panel of experts including Australia’s leading innovators. Get to know all the winners and finalists.
Primary winners: It’s a tie!
Dom’s DAB Device
Dominic Fisher
Sacred Heart Primary School
Safe-N-Sea
Jack Lantry
St Joseph’s Primary School, East Maitland
Lower Secondary winner
Epinject
Jorja Suga
Clancy Catholic College, West Hoxton
Upper Secondary winner
Bin-It-Right
Poppy Briggs and Lucy Lönnqvist
St Mary’s Anglican Girls School
Aussie Student Inventors
Primary Finalists
11 videos | 2020
Check out the inventions from our primary finalists.
Gemma McKenna and Sadie Peters
Sacred Heart Primary School
Joseph Fraser and Joshua Schaper
Freshwater Christian College
Ruhani and Raaga
Sunbury Heights Primary School
Jack Lantry
St Joseph’s Primary School, East Maitland
Lucy Miller and Lara Salter
St Hilda’s Anglican Girls School
Archie Fairhurst, Danny Daher and Phillip Ren
Knox Grammar Preparatory School
James Douglas and Samuel Scott
St Philip’s Christian College (Newcastle Campus)
Cohen James
Northern Beaches Christian School
Dominic Fisher
Sacred Heart Primary School
Ishaa Bose
Abbotsleigh
Selena, Jennifer and Chloe
North Rocks Public School
Aussie Student Inventors
Lower Secondary Finalists
13 videos | 2020
Check out the inventions from our lower secondary finalists.
Sarah Comiskey, Millie Wright and Eirene Kiratzopoulos
St Mary’s Anglican Girls School
Neeti Sheth, Luis Lee and Harmony Balgera
St Mary’s Anglican Girls School
Jorja Cobby and Zoe Caillard
St Mary’s Anglican Girls School
Jasmine Parsons, Isabella O’Neill, Sahara Newey and Sabrina Gunesch
St Clare’s College, Waverley
Ezgi Ozer, Bridget Fitzgerald, Bella-Angel Otto de Grancy and Zara Dean
St Clare’s College, Waverley
Dapto High School STEM Class
Dapto High School
Jorja Suga
Clancy Catholic College, West Hoxton
Skyla Birch and Ava Smith
St Mary’s College
David Luke
St Matthew’s Catholic School, Mudgee
Sahasra Nemana, Vasısta Sangabattula, Anvita Arora, Misk Awwad, Lyna Moeun, Xinlong Wu and Diamant Berisha
Arthur Phillip High School
James Tan
Brighton Grammar School (Senior School)
Dinel Bomiriya and Gideon Tse
Yarra Valley Grammar School
Emma Arbidans
Clancy Catholic College, West Hoxton
Aussie Student Inventors
Upper Secondary Finalists
7 videos | 2020
Check out the inventions from our upper secondary finalists.
Eesha Parekh
Ipswich Girls Grammar School
Rhianna Ward
Ipswich Girls Grammar School
Sebastian rayk
Waverley College
Max Petschack, Jai Mangos and Darcy LF
John Monash Science School
Poppy Briggs and Lucy Lönnqvist
St Mary’s Anglican Girls School
Amy, Keisha, Kiera and Charlotte
Elizabeth Macarthur High School
Lauren Seeto
Abbotsleigh
Amazing prizes for winners in all five categories
Mentoring from judgesThe winners of each category will receive:
- Two mentoring sessions with the judging panel, to help them make their concept a reality
- Cash from ClickView towards their creation process
- Invaluable exposure to networks of innovators, via the networks of the judging panel, and ClickView’s industry peers, audiences and customer network.
Judge Bios
Sally Dominguez is an inventor, serial entrepreneur, architect and futurist with seven international product awards. Sally designed the Adventurous Thinking innovation strategy used as a 10X Mindset by organisations including NASA. She judged Car of the Year for 10+ years, was an expert judge on ABC’s New Inventors, and co-hosted Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. Sally is an ambassador for Good Design Australia, Faculty at Singularity University in Silicon Valley and teaches Adventurous Thinking at Stanford.
Dr Niraj (Nij) Lal is an Australian physicist, presenter and author. He’s a principal at the AEMO, hosts Imagine This, is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at ANU, and Director of First Principles. In 2012, Nij graduated as a Gates Scholar with a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Nij has taught Science at levels ranging from pre-school to post-graduate and, in 2016, was named one of the ABC’s Top 5 Scientists Under 40.
Evan Clark graduated from UNSW in 2003 with a Bachelor of Telecommunication Engineering. While studying, Evan invented a way to deliver on-demand HD video to schools over IP networks using MPEG-4 compression standard. The underlying invention was “predictive file transfer” and led to his co-founding of ClickView in 2003. Evan won the 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award (Emerging category, Eastern Region). He continues to enhance education by leveraging immersive rich-media technology in AR and AI-driven non-linear video playback.
Watch ‘Aussie Inventions That Changed The World’ for inspiration
Led by a team of four expert hosts, this entertaining series uncovers how each invention worked, why it was extraordinary in its time and the conditions that lead to its ultimate successes, with a few instructive failures along the way. Comedian, actor and, well, brainiac Matt Parkinson heads up a team of expert co-hosts; science journalist Anja Taylor, inventor Sally Dominguez and historian David Hunt. They investigate four different inventions within each episode, linked by a common theme.
an Aussie backyard icon – the rotary clothes hoist – only to have it made famous by someone else. Myra Taylor improved women’s lives with her Boneless Corset leaving a legacy of freedom we still enjoy today. Mervyn Richardson forever changed the suburban landscape with his Victa Lawnmower, while Dr Steve Cummings and Bruce Thompson achieved huge water savings around the world with the Dual Flush Toilet.
extraordinary Bionic Ear delivered deaf patients the sound of speech; John O’Sullivan and his CSIRO team created the world’s first high-speed WiFi that dramatically changed the communication landscape worldwide; Henry Sutton’s visionary ‘Telephane’ was designed in Ballarat decades before the Television and post-master James Raymond established the world’s first Pre-Paid Postage system in Sydney in 1838 with his delightfully simple pre-paid envelope.
help Anzacs safely evacuate from Gallipoli. Alexander Worsfold built his all-terrain Transporter to hurry injured soldiers to field hospitals on the Western Front. Adelaide-born Howard Florey and his team developed the wonder drug Penicillin that was first deployed amongst infected allied soldiers during World War Two. And from Wollongong, Evelyn Owen’s Sub Machine Gun out-performed its competitors and become known as ‘the diggers’ darling’.
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