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BDmag Latest Issue - October to December 2023 (Issue 18)

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Big Ideas Youth Challenge

Winning team at 2022 Big Ideas Youth Challenge with

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.

Jacqueline Steel (Advance Queensland) with Burdekin Catholic High School students
Kerrie Hinschen (Infiniti AI), Dylan Furnell (Townsville City Council), Martin Coffey (KNEWK Entertainment) and Tyson Schmid (Townsville City Council)
Jasmin Healy-Pagan (Youth Reset) and Ngaire Trigg (Townsville City Council))
Ian Atkinson (JCU), Townsville Mayor Cr Jenny Hill and John Chandler (AusIndustry)
Burdekin Cr Kaylee Boccalatte and Natalie Siagian (The Personhood)
John Chandler (AusIndustry) with Pimilco State High School students
Natalie Siagian (The Personhood) with Townsville State High School students
Dylan Furnell (Townsville City Council) mentoring students
Kerrie Hinschen (Infiniti AI) mentoring students
Jack Growden (LiteHaus International) with Saint Margaret Mary’s Catholic College students)
Susan Kinobe (TAFE Qld) with Saint Patrick’s Catholic College students
Blake Pelling (SafetyCulture) with students
Ricky Esterquest (Towards Better) with Saint Margaret Mary’s Catholic College students
Simone Walters (Waltlec Industries) with William Ross State High School students
Jasmin Healy-Pagan (Youth Reset) with students
Smart Precinct Team
Winning team at 2022 Big Ideas Youth Challenge with
JCU Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academy Professor Marcus Lane, Townsville Mayor Cr Jenny Hill, winning students Zayden Fortt, Kyle Gibbs and Jeffin Jo Prince, and Smart Precinct NQ General Manager Cassandra Cazzulino
Professor Marcus Lane (JCU), Blake Pelling (SafetyCulture), Jack Growden (LiteHaus International) and Townsville Mayor Cr Jenny Hill
Neville Growden, Jack Growden and Peter Raim (LiteHaus International)
Simone Walters (Waltlec Industries) and Townsville Cr Sue Blom
Gim Menel (TAFE Qld) with students
Tim Joseph (Townsville Grammar School), Susan Kinobe (TAFE Qld), and Gim Menel (TAFE Qld)
Dr Someek Basu, Dr Dana Vojisavljevic, Dr Samantha J. Horseman, Dr Lydia Canovas-Saiz and Miranda Meers

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