[STEM]

Mac [Airbrakes Rocket] | A sounding rocket built to prove airbrake flight control works, a step toward a 30,000ft national competition launch.‍

Kora [Infinite Bloom] | A gesture-based VR game letting players shrink into a butterfly or plankton to escape self-centredness.

Tenzin [Merthin Tactical Robotics] | Human-sized, tele-operated robots built from custom actuators to move like real bodies, not slow-motion demos.

Jack [OpenPitch] | An open-source, Raspberry Pi camera that tracks grassroots soccer games for a fraction of the cost of commercial systems.

Chloe [OysterX] | A bioceramic material grown from reclaimed oyster shells, offering a low-carbon alternative to conventional tiles.

Ally [PIXEL] | A cross-disciplinary community connecting young Kiwi creators, builders and founders to reshape Aotearoa's innovation culture.

Jacob [PollinateAU] | A social media project turning Australian biodiversity into memes, guides and real-world climate action.

Monish Reddy, Allan [Project Reprise - The Accessible Fencing Score Box] | A low-cost, modular electronic scoring box built by fencers, for fencers, to replace expensive imported systems.

Sneha [Project Sitaare] | A ceiling-mounted home planetarium projecting the real night sky, built from a memory of stargazing with a grandfather.

Laura [Red Herring] | A wallet disguised as a menstrual pad, using period stigma itself to help women travel safer.

Bracken [Terminal Zero] | An AI research tool that refuses to state a figure it can't trace to a real, cited source.

Trisha [Unplugged: a cableless electric guitar setup] | A wireless transmitter for electric guitar, freeing players from the tangle and dropout of cables.

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[MEDIA]

Marcus [A Chinese Nuke is Headed for Bondi Beach!] | A satire short film where an immigrant family's dream home is threatened by an incoming nuclear strike, a dark comedy take on Australia's obsession with property.

Ava [Education Content Creation via Social Media] | An Instagram account tracking one student's journey to becoming a teacher, blending journalism and classroom media literacy.

Madison, Suzanna, Sharlott [Falling] | A ten-part webseries set over one house-party night, following the messy choreography of teenage attraction and heartbreak.

Jade-Monet [FEED HER] | An experimental short film using the mouth as a symbol of female repression.

Merle [Girl Talk* [*Working title]] | A textiles-and-design project asking how care can interrupt the self-surveillance built into girlhood.

Emma [Girlshaped Issue 001] | A zine giving space to female, queer and neurodivergent voices, opening with an issue on love, intimacy and self-worth.

Lucy, Fletcher, Tallulah, Tiahna, Dhaani [GOOD BOY] | A six-episode comedy webseries following a failed artist turned feet-pic seller, wrestling with freedom, identity and rising conservatism.

Thea [GOOD BOY (working title)] | A branching horror game told from a dog's point of view, asking why a woman in the same story isn't given the same grace.

Samantha [Snapshot] | A debut EP: six songs and a fully formed vision, ready for the stage.

Ethan [Static] | A comedy short about a burnt-out student and a roommate addicted to television static after a storm kills the internet.

Mia [The 'Money In Action' Project] | A free, self-paced financial literacy course built to make money knowledge a right, not a privilege, for young Australians.

Isha [The Women of Women's Football] | A zine and newsletter honouring the overlooked women who built the sport from behind the scenes.

Layla, Ruby [We Belong to the End] | A feature documentary woven from strangers' donated home footage into a meditation on love and mortality.