The EWB Challenge Showcase: Over 15 years of connecting changemakers with stakeholders!
The EWB Challenge is our original flagship curriculum-integrated university program, typically delivered to first-year engineering students. Students are presented with a fantastic opportunity to design practical and innovative solutions to real-world problems, with the potential for future development by the community.
For the first time in EWB Challenge history, we offered two different community contexts for universities delivering the program in 2023; a First Nations context in Australia with Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation on Yirrganydji Country in Cairns, and a Pu Ngoal context in Cambodia in partnership with the EWB Australia team in Cambodia.
Finalist teams from up to 23 participating universities from Australia and New Zealand have been invited to come together on Yirrganydji Country to present their design projects and connect with the stakeholders.
Find out more about the EWB Challenge and Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation.
Day 1: Half-day Yirrganydji cultural tour guided by Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation
Attendees to join the Yirrganydji cultural tour guided by Dawul Wuru in the morning until early afternoon. Optional for judges/guests to join.
Day 2: Presentation and awards all day at JCU Ideas Lab.
Students to pitch their design project to peers and a panel of judges! Our judging team looks forward to meeting you and will determine a number of awards to announce at the event’s conclusion.
2023 EWB Challenge Showcase Event Preparation Guide
First Nations Context
DESIGN AREA | DESIGN OPPORTUNITY | SHOWCASE FINALISTS |
Structures | 1.4 Transportable ranger base office | University of Western Australia* Melbourne Polytechnic |
Energy | 3.2 Solar-powered coral terrarium | University of Canberra* Murdoch University* |
3.4 Transportable and scalable clean energy system | University of Technology Sydney* University of Adelaide* University of Tasmania | |
Caring for Land Country | 4.1 Nursery for cultivating bush tucker and native plants | Curtin University* |
Caring for Sea Country | 5.1 Tank for rehabilitating injured dugong | Charles Darwin University* |
5.5 Mechanisms to reduce noise and vibrations generated by crocodile monitoring boats | University of Sunshine Coast* | |
Water Management | 6.1 Rainwater harvesting to support bush tucker gardening | University of Queensland |
Waste & Reuse | 7.1 Methods to reduce littering on Country | Flinders University* |
DESIGN AREA | DESIGN OPPORTUNITY | SHOWCASE FINALISTS |
Sanitation and Hygiene | 1.1 Low cost/ affordable toilet | Federation University |
Water Supply | 2.1 Quality drinking water | University of South Australia |
2.4 Improved accessibility and affordability to natural water supply | Charles Sturt University Swinburne University | |
Energy | 4.1 Affordable alternative energy sources to main grid | Western Sydney University |
ICT | 5.2 Tools to improve disaster response | RMIT* |
Structures | 6.3 Infrastructure to enable safe river access | Auckland University of Technology* |
Waste & Reuse | 7.1 Recycling or reuse opportunities with common waste | University of Canterbury* |
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