2018 Year 3-4 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Swap Machine

Our invention is a reverse vending machine that will swap your recycle materials for recycle dollars. The recycle dollars can be used to things in the canteen. The materials that can be recycled are paper, HDPE plastic, PET plastic, steel cans, aluminium cans and glass.

To use our machine, students will need to first scan their canteen cards and then their recycle materials with bar codes. They will get money for each material to spend in their school canteen. If students don’t have a card or bar code in the material they just recycle.

We used light and movement sensors to make our machine automatic and also has braille to help people who are blind.

Winner:  Perth College

Best Use of STEM

The Life Savers

Our invention is a reverse vending machine that will swap your recycle materials for recycle dollars. The recycle dollars can be used to things in the canteen. The materials that can be recycled are paper, HDPE plastic, PET plastic, steel cans, aluminium cans and glass.

To use our machine, students will need to first scan their canteen cards and then their recycle materials with bar codes. They will get money for each material to spend in their school canteen. If students don’t have a card or bar code in the material they just recycle.

We used light and movement sensors to make our machine automatic and also has braille to help people who are blind.

Winner:  Nedlands Primary School

Best Presentation

The Four Shores

People always leave their waste in parks and do not bother to pick it up. Pollution is having a direct impact on sensitive species or habitats. In our local park we come across loads of rubbish. The Rubbish Bot has a sensor in the front to detect rubbish. When it has located rubbish it will use the Teachable Machine (AI) app connected to a front camera to work out if it is a plastic bottle. The Rubbish Bot will put the rubbish in the right coloured recycle bin. The Rubbish Bot is solar powered which makes the machine operate during daylight hours. The Rubbish Bot also senses when it is at full capacity & returns to the bin storage to empty its load. At night time, the Rubbish Bot connects to a park bin for safe keeping whilst it stores excess solar energy in its battery pack.

Winner:  Nedlands Primary School

2018 Year 5-6 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Plastomat

Winner:  Nedlands Primary School

Best Use of STEM

Da Team

A pump and drainage solution to assist in flood prone regions.

Winner:  Ashdale Primary School

Best Presentation

Econ

Winner:  Beaconsfield Primary School

2018 Year 7-8 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Acquarius

Education through games designed to teach others about water conservation, coastal litter and animal conservation.

Winner:  Hampton Senior High School

Best Use of STEM

Da Team

Winner:  Swan View Senior High School

2018 Year 9-10 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Glow Worms

Education through games designed to teach different target audiences about first aid, bush fire safety and traffic emergencies.

Winner:  Hampton Senior High School

Best Use of STEM

Da Team

Winner:  Perth Modern School

Best Presentation

Econ

Winner:  Perth Modern School