Tasmania

Year 3 – 4

First Place

Safety Mat
Evie Baldock, Beth Kerr, Izzy Rayner
Waimea Heights Primary School

A lovely old lady called jenny recently lost her husband and is now a widow. Lately she as been forgetting things Like locking her house SO we* designed a special mat that detects robbers and bandits when you (Jenny) are out of the house and you flip the mat and when robbers step on it, it makes an alarm. 

Second Place

Double P – Plant protectors 
Issy Dorney, Katie Faulkner, Minnie Gourlay
Waimea Heights Primary School


Our group is called double p (Plant protectors), and we are here to help people who can’t take care of their plants. With our technology and work you will be able to tell when the plant needs something 

Third Place

Flood Sensor
Scout Ellis, Lucas Gray, Harry Van Ruth, Conan Xu
Waimea Heights Primary School

There have been many disastrous floods in the past years and there has been very bad floods in NSW and Victoria as well. Floods can damage your house a lot. We are making an alarm that can tell people when water in their house reaches up to 40 cm, so they’re a bit safer. We will use a makey makey 2 claw clips and a micro-bit 

Year 5 – 6

First Place

Hot’n Cold Entry
Julian Douramanis, Harry Ferguson, Alex Giannakopoulos, Alex Kim
Waimea Heights Primary School

Our YICTE project is called the Hot’nCold Entry. Using a Raspberry PI we will make a project that will detect if someone is standing in front of a door. Then the user will check their temperature with a temperature gun. If the temperature is normal, then the door will open and if the temperature is too hot then the door will stay locked.

Second Place

High School Helper
Archer Atkins, Hugo Dorney, Ollie Johnston & Fraser Parsons
Waimea Heights Primary School


Our project is made to help highschoolers who cant find their way around school
We are creating a card that you’ll scan on the scanners that will be scattered around the school hallways. Once its scanned it will tell you how to get there.
We made this because kids who are new to the school or aren’t good with remembering there way around places. The reason this is helpful is because people can get very stressed out about not knowing where to be and they miss out on learning time trying to find the class.
We used machine learning to program it to recognize each individual card. 

Third Place

Safe Stores
Luca Caporelli, Monty Harris, Lenny Milne
Waimea Heights Primary School

Over the past couple years the earth has been affected by Covid 19, and as apart of staying safe we socially distanced. This door mat makes sure that everyone is socially distancing by giving you nice message when you enter a store and when the store capacity is reached it lets you know that you cannot enter.

Year 11 – 12

First Place

Blimpy
Mason Ombao, Jeremy Keddie Gray
Launceston College

Blimpy is a surveying device intended to be used to take photos from up to 100 meters in the air. It can be attached to helium balloons and a rope to tether it to the ground. Blimpy can be used for search and rescue, surveillance, and monitoring Wildlife. Blimpy has multiple on-board sensors, including a camera, height sensor, temperature sensor, accelerometer and a GPS receiver. These sensors can be used to assist with putting Blimpy into the required position. Blimpy is able to periodically take photos and stream them down to a ground station.

Second Place

Biometric Lock
Byron Hague, Eoin McMahon, Luke Davenport, Lakaya Venn-Hall
Launceston College


The biometric lock is a locking mechanism that uses Biometric inputs to unlock a solenoid lock. It uses Sound and facial recognition as the inputs. It will be able to bring security, safety and efficiency to areas such as hotels, construction sites and homes. The owner of the lock will be able to download and upload authorised faces and voices and allow them into the premise. this lock also solves the problem with losing keys. It is widely known that losing keys to your home, being locked out and having to call a family member for a copy of the key or a lockpick is a pain, or a person has disabilities that doesn’t allow them to put a key into the lock. for this reason, it is the basis of our invention, to let the vulnerable and sick into their homes without the risk of losing keys or breaking and entering.

Third Place

Security Drone
Jack Watson, William Tubb, Matthew Du Plessis, Rhys Fernandez
Launceston College


This drone is meant to go around businesses and other places to scan the area for anyone thats moving and if anyone is moving they are meant to scan their card to not get reported, if they dont the website that is included with the drone should take a photo of this person and send the photo to the website.