Over 300 high school students from around the region descended on James Cook University’s Bebegu Yumba campus for the Townsville City Council Big Ideas Youth Challenge, with students working with local businesses, mentors, civic leaders, and subject matter experts to develop their entrepreneurial thinking and design skills. Eight teams were shortlisted to pitch their idea, with Zayden Fortt, Kyle Gibbs and Jeffin Jo Prince of Southern Cross Catholic College taking out the top prize with their idea to gamify recycling, receiving an exclusive tour of JCU’s Area 61 industrial-scale facility which can be scaled for manufacturing, and a prototyping session to workshop how their idea could be turned into a real product.
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