Venture Makers Innovation Challenge 3 – Net Zero
Launch Pad hosted the third Venture Makers Innovation Challenge on 15 September 2022.
Venture Makers is Launch Pad’s entrepreneurship training and development program for students, researchers and staff designed to build and support an entrepreneurial culture & ecosystem.
The Challenge Question
"How do we stop the climate crisis by accelerating to a net carbon zero economy?"
One of the biggest challenges facing all of our future employers over the next decade is getting to net zero. Nearly every project, every team and every employee are being asked to consider this in all jobs whether it is medicine, law, engineering, creative arts and media, manufacturing or transportation.
Understanding these challenges and how to be part of a team to solve them can be exciting and relevant to future employment prospects. The Accelerating to Net Zero Innovation Challenge put participants in the driver’s seat to solve this problem and develop and communicate innovative ideas. The skills learnt in this challenge would be valuable whether they become an employee for any organisation or choose to become an innovator, inventor or entrepreneur.
Working in teams, participants proposed new ideas and solutions for Accelerating to Net Zero with a human-centric approach that delivers the most benefit to society focusing on the following sectors:
The Benefits
Skills learnt throughout the challenge
Soft Skills
Hard Skills
Prizes
* all prizes were issued in vouchers
Venture Makers Innovation Challenge 3
Winners
1st Place
Sunergy
Oliver Middleton, Chi Lu, Kimroth Kung, James Honan, Micah Honan
Sunergy’s solution was to create blinds that not only block light out of apartments/houses etc, but blinds that have solar panel on them which absorbs the light it blocks.
2nd Place
Team Energy
Bibhushi Upadhyay, Sabaiyal Khan, Thu Van, Carney Pham, Bradley Judge
The runner’s up idea was to set up a smart meter into households along with solar panels.
3rd Place
Team 11
Paul Mukhin, Andrew Ford, Ke Cheng Zhu, Connor Ambrose, Mary Bul
In third place was Team 11, with their SmartCrate solution which monitors and tracks the status and viability of the food to optimise sustainability.
Program Details
‘Accelerating to Net Zero’ Innovation Challenge was delivered over a series of key events providing students with opportunities to build industry contacts and practice key skills including ideation, teamwork and pitching.
Info Session
1 September 2022
Online: 12pm-1pm AEST
Innovation Hackathon & Pitch Competition
15 September 2022
Australian Participants (in-person, Parramatta): 10:30am – 8pm AEST
International Participants (online): 11am – 8pm AEST
Program Outline
The Venture Makers Innovation Challenge – Accelerating to Net Zero was a whole-day hackathon event, kicked off at 10.30AM and finished at 8.00PM
See the challenge recap
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