This year’s EWB Challenge Showcase was delivered in collaboration with the 2024 World Engineering Education Forum hosted by the University of Technology Sydney. Finalist teams from 14 universities across Australia and New Zealand joined us at the Sydney Masonic Centre for an exciting day of pitches and presentations as they shared their design ideas developed in response to the EWB Challenge Design Brief.
This year, students responded to one of two different community contexts; a First Nations context in Saibai Island in the Torres Strait with the Torres Strait Island Regional Council, and a Mondulkiri context in Cambodia, in partnership with the EWB Australia team in Cambodia. With representatives from our community partners present at the Showcase, it was a great opportunity for students to pick their brains and ask all of their burning questions from throughout the year.
Finalists presenting their solution at the 2024 EWB Challenge Showcase held in Sydney.
Award Winners
Students who participated in the 2024 EWB Challenge developed design proposals addressing a variety of themes including but not limited to: Information and Communication Technology, Energy, Waste management and Water management.
The University of Queensland finalist team who took home the Showcase Pitch Award – First Nations Context for their solution, ‘Mangroves and Oysters: Harnessing biological symbiosis to tackle climate change’.
Our judges were very impressed with the finalist pitches. Congratulations to the following award winners:
- Showcase Pitch Award – First Nations Context: The University of Queensland – Mangroves and Oysters: Harnessing biological symbiosis to tackle climate change
- Community Partner Award – First Nations Context: Charles Darwin University – Robust Oyster Basket Breakwater
- Showcase Pitch Award – Cambodia Context: Charles Sturt University – Portable Water Catchment and Storage System
- Best Stall Award: Curtin University – Layer Roading
- Industry Reviewer Award: Swinburne University of Technology – Handwashing Stations with Foot Pumps
A big congratulations to the award winners for 2024 and thank you to all the finalists!
A panel discussion with industry judges about their experience working with community on real-world projects.
EWB Australia would like to thank the University of Technology Sydney, one of our EWB Strategic University Partners, for generously hosting us at the Sydney Masonic Centre as part of the 2024 World Engineering Education Forum.
The EWB Challenge is delivered as part of the EWB Challenge Series, EWB’s real-world curriculum-integrated university education programs. Learn more about the EWB Challenge here.
Caption: WEEF attendees engaging with student finalists on their design solutions.