2019 Year 3-4 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Sprung Cat Collar

This device protects native wildlife from domestic cats. A sensor is triggered when the cat gets into the attack position and sets off an alarm which scares the cat.

Winner:  Perth College

Best Use of STEM

The Green Team

Our project is about water. Around the world people are dying from contaminated water, so we are creating a solution! I, Zach and Daniel have made a filter that will turn dirty water into clean and drinkable water that we hope will help the world. This solution will contain all dirty water and convert it into clean water using a filter. The filter will have UV lights, charcoal, rocks, sand and coffee filter to filter out the dirty water. If this succeeds we want to show this invention to the world to hopefully make it a better place. if we fail we will try to improve it and make it better.

Winner:  Beaconsfield Primary School

Best Presentation

Super Plastic Scientists

Australia has been sending recycling rubbish to developing countries rather than solving the problem locally. We investigated different ways to recycle plastics and explored a range of solutions. We decided that we will need to establish local recycling infrastructure to solve this issue properly and then invented the super plastic processor which can melt and remould plastics into plastic pellets.  Plastics that can’t be recycled will be provided to maggots as food sources.

Winner:  Oberthur Primary School

2019 Year 5-6 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Safety Boot

Safety boots to support workers in construction and other industries. This unique boot includes lights and a locator which help keep track of workers.

Winner:  Perth College

Best Use of STEM

Cot Detective

Device which uses Artificial Intelligence and Microbial Fuel Cells to protect the Great Barrier Reef against Crown of Thorns Starfish.

Winner:  Perth College

Best Presentation

Smart Gardener

The Walliston Whizz kids have used their STEM skills to develop a solution to the problem of not having enough space or time to manage a vegetable garden. The Smart Gardener. A fully automated ‘vertical’ garden, that will fit into any backyard and provide people with the benefits of a backyard garden, without the hassle of maintenance. Using robotics and featuring a unique phone app, the smart gardener combines science, mathematics and coding to create a simple user experience for the consumer.

Winner:  Walliston Primary School

2019 Year 7-8 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Elderly Pal

Students want to reduce death toll of helpless elderly at home, by integrating AI companion in bathrooms and around the home. The AI will alert authority to get help if potential danger is detected.

Winner:  Rehoboth Christian College

Best Use of STEM

Life Saver Band

Modernised city has people with suicidal inclinations wear the life-saver band which detects signs of suicidal thoughts and automatically activate strategies to de-escalate the suicide intentions.

Winner:  Rehoboth Christian College

Best Presentation

Smart Rider

Project involves the making of a hovercraft with can go on both land and water as a more suitable future mode of transport due to the rise of sea level and multiple flooding in city areas.

Winner:  Rehoboth Christian College

2019 Year 9-10 Winners

Best Entry Overall

Seismic Activity Protection

The Seismic activity protection protocols aims to help protect people from seismic related activity such as earthquakes and tsunamis. We built a seismometer from arduino electronic components and then wrote the programming to evaluate the degree of movement the seismometer ‘felt’. We also used computer aided design to demonstrate how it wold work and costed the materials required to build it.

Winner:  Shenton College

Best Entry Overall

Seismic Activity Protection

The Seismic activity protection protocols aims to help protect people from seismic related activity such as earthquakes and tsunamis. We built a seismometer from arduino electronic components and then wrote the programming to evaluate the degree of movement the seismometer ‘felt’. We also used computer aided design to demonstrate how it wold work and costed the materials required to build it.

Winner:  Shenton College

Best Presentation

Smart City

Our very own Smart City. The problem: How might we design a city that is fit for the future?

Winner:  Iona Presentation College