YICTE ACT 2014 Winners

By September 15, 2014 News No Comments

Congratulations to all participants of the inaugural ACT Young ICT Explorers! 80 students from 10 schools entered the challenge, delivering 33 high quality projects. We hope everyone pulled a few words of wisdom from Andrew Clapham’s keynote speech – most importantly the importance of what he called ‘cool tech’ – those exciting moments when knowing how to code can lead to amazing business ideas. Great work Canberra – the judges were very impressed and noted the high quality of all entries! This year’s awards went to:

Year 5 – 6

1st Place Equal: Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with A Little Hand (by Paris McMahon)
1st Place Equal: Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Scratch Projects (by Emily Turner)
2nd Place:  Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with Childhood Obesity Animation (Minecraft) (by Emily Turner, Laura Cockerill and Sophie-Rose Eccles)
3rd Place: Turner School with Snail Life (by Olivia Allen, Kai den Hertog and Mia Rajak)
Merit:  Canberra Girls’ Grammar School with School QR Codes (by Ella Cross and Felicity Allanson)

Year 7 – 8

1st Place: Canberra Grammar School with Reduce Your Emissions (by Thomas Faulder and Timothy Muya)
2nd Place:  Canberra Grammar School with Code Clinic (by Jaxon Kneipp and Damian Camilleri)
2nd Place:  Canberra Grammar School with Crunch (by George Dan)
3rd Place Equal: Canberra Grammar School with Class Timetable (by Shobhit Bajpai)
3rd Place Equal: St Clare’s College with Selfless (by Alexandra Black)
3rd Place Equal: Canberra Grammar School with Tech>How (by Forbes Mailler and Harrison Bergman)

Year 9 – 10

1st Place: Canberra Grammar School with Geburtstag (by Christopher Seidl, Benjamin Maliel and Ben McLean)
2nd Place: St Clare’s College with ACT Avoid (by Emily Macaulay, Mia Bueno and Madeline Buddee)

Year 11 -12

1st Place: St Francis Xavier College with Smart Soccer (by Nathan Potter, Alexander Cavalli and Jordan Haddrick)
2nd Place: Canberra College with Voice and Motion-Controlled Bluetooth Robot (by Claudia Schipp, Ted Pettigrove, Adam Rowland and Jonothan Rehn)
3rd Place: Dickson College with Indoor Positioning System (by Amy Blunt, Frankie Braybon and Danilo Jankovic)
Merit : Dickson College with Dickson Interactive (by Noah Ingham, Keenan Smith and Stephen James)

Overall Student Choice

  • Canberra Grammar School with Crunch (by George Dan)