National Semi Finals 2022

Meet the Teams

Final event running orders may be subject to change – please check back closer to the time for final event info!

SEMI FINAL 1: MONDAY 24 OCTOBER | 9AM – 10AM AEST

Hands on My Life (Catherine McAuley Westmead, NSW)

Our business is about procrastination and reaching goals. We are using our own experiences to help other teenagers and children to reach their goals.

Reefora (Ferny Grove SHS, QLD)

Reefora provides the products to be able to combat coral degradation and bleaching. We combat this issue through introducing additional amounts of calcium carbonate.

The B Ball Bin (Emerald SHS, QLD)

The B Ball Bin is an innovative solution to pollution by combining a popular sport (basketball) with a worldwide problem (pollution).

Chainless Totes (Corinda SHS, QLD)

Chainless Totes is a social-enterprise, that sells tote bags made without slavery to educate the customer on slavery, and give 50% of profits to IJM.

Accesimaps (Loreto Kirribilli, NSW)

Accesimaps is an app used to assist people who are physically marginalised, by using technology to provide accessible features which help improve their daily lives.

Meet the Semi Final 1 Judges

Noah Pronk

Founder

Sticky Pronk

Marisa Stastny

Global Cloud Services

SAP

Jim Cassidy

Director

Little Fish to Big Fish

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SEMI FINAL 2: MONDAY 24 OCTOBER | 10.30AM – 11.30AM AEST

Bearifiers (Emerald SHS, QLD)

Bearifiers are the cutest and simplest way to prevent sickness and combat pollution in a car: it’s a bear with an interior air purifier.

Green Canteen (Loreto Kirribilli, NSW)

A reusable container system for school canteens and workplaces.

The Beach Loadout (Bribie Island SHS, QLD)

Eco-friendly, customisable beach cart made out of recycled plastic, taken from beaches and the ocean. Not for profit business, 10% of profits going to charity.

Swap A Roo (MacGregor SHS, QLD)

Swap A Roo is a social service platform that allows parents to swap clothes that no longer fit their growing child from 0-5 years

Happy Koala (Ferny Grove SHS, QLD)

Buy pyjamas, save Koalas. Trendy, high quality pyjama pants to help raise money for the Australian Koala Foundation.

Meet the Semi Final 2 Judges

Lucy Thomas OAM

CEO

Project Rockit

Murray Hurps

Director of Entrepreneurship

UTS

Paulette Oldfield

Program Leader

City of Logan

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SEMI FINAL 3: MONDAY 24 OCTOBER | 12 NOON  – 1PM AEST

Savii (Ferny Grove SHS, QLD)

Our product is a savings app that is designed to hold consumers back from engaging in instant gratification from purchases to empower them through finances.

AlertR (Forest Lake SHS, QLD)

AlertR is a small button, that students can press to send a notification to the teachers laptop, letting them know students are having a break.

Portafier (Yarrabilba SSC, QLD)

A portable water filter that can be used anywhere for any reason. It is made for people enable to access safe drinking water.

RagBags (Bishop Druitt College, NSW)

RagBags is a sustainable company idea that takes old used shirt and textiles, turning them into new, stylish, handmade bags.

Rolls Upon Rolls (CathWest Innovation College, NSW)

Creating baby clothing for children aged 0-4 who have skin conditions such as eczema using 92% bamboo and 8% spandex clothing.

Meet the Semi Final 3 Judges

Adele Laughton

CEO

Future Farmers Network

Murray Galbraith

Founder/Creative Director

Syntropic Studio

Deb Allan

Manager

Regional Development Manufacturing & Water

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SEMI FINAL 4: MONDAY 24 OCTOBER | 1.30PM  – 2.30PM AEST

Sunny Smiles (St Margaret Mary’s College, QLD)

50% of the profits made from our innovative, scalable and sustainable business solution, donated to life-saving research, prevention programs and for victims of skin cancer.

Kufiyahs for a Cause (Brisbane South SSC, QLD)

My business is selling authentic kufiyahs made in Palestine to raise awareness of their fight for freedom and support their final surviving kufiyah business.

SustainaBee Made (Loreto Kirribilli, NSW)

Our social enterprise sells sustainably made beeswax candles containing seed packages. All proceeds are donated to the ‘Wheen Bee Foundation’ to solve bee population decline.

Step Up Shoe (Forest Lake SHS, QLD)

This business is here to help the millions of kids bullied in school and help them step up to bullying.

Dynamic Diffusers (Mercy College Mackay, QLD)

We create diffusers that have a built-in Bluetooth speaker which is controlled by an app. You can play sound through the speaker while using it.

Meet the Semi Final 4 Judges

Makayla Finch

Founder

The I AM Project

Summer Howarth

Founder

The Eventful Learning. Co

Leanne Butterworth

CEO

Empathy First

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SEMI FINAL 5: THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER | 9AM – 10AM AEST

Just To Let You Know You’re Not Alone (Kildare College, SA)

A social enterprise that is making cutlery with laser engraved words of affirmation to support and encourage people with eating disorders in their recovery journey.

SWAI GAMES (St Luke’s Catholic College, NSW)

Our goal is to bring entertainment to the world, through games. We want cure boredom, we found that 135 of 365 days are spent bored.

Micro Muncher (St Peter’s College, SA)

An autonomous drone that collects and filters toxic and dangerous micro-plastics from bodies of water to create a cleaner environment

SuppliED (Springfield Central SHS, QLD)

SuppliEd supplies school supplies to the children of South Sudan through a buy-one give-one system based here in Australia.

Embrace Ur Race (Wavell SHS, QLD)

Our business is a ‘by teenagers for teenagers’ social enterprise designed to help stop casual racism in schools.

Meet the Semi Final 5 Judges

Nilan Mihindukulasooriya

Managing Director

Firehouse Technology Pvt Ltd

Chloe Alley

Founder

By Chloe

Elijah Buol OAM

QLD State Manager

Australian Red Cross

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SEMI FINAL 6: THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER | 10.30AM – 11.30AM AEST

Eco Bed (Marymount College, QLD)

Australia’s only sustainable recyclable anti-chewable dog beds made out of Kevlar material.

Zoomies (St Luke’s Catholic College, NSW)

To create calming beds to help dogs or cats experiencing domestic abuse.

Keyrings for Change (Foxwell SSC, QLD)

Keyrings For Change is an alternative to non-environmentally friendly, problematic plastic keyrings and a way to satisfy your social conscience with an innovative solution.

See Yourself (Kildare College, SA)

See Yourself is a business which helps teenage bullying in schools. ‘See Yourself, Be Yourself, Love Yourself’

Meet the Semi Final 6 Judges

Aaron Birkby

CEO

Tribe Global Ventures

Poppy Rouse

Strategy & Innovation Consultant

Powered by Purpose

Kai Lovel

Product Operations

Zipline.io

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SEMI FINAL 7: THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER | 12 NOON  – 1PM AEST

Honey By Nature (Cardijn College, SA)

An all natural lip balm in a pot made out of seeded cardboard. Made to eliminate plastic waste, greenhouse effect, and harmful ingredients in lip balm.

SOAPads (Redclifee SHS, QLD)

Biodegradable sanitary pads, with a soap sheet wrapping.

Strawberry (Kildare College, SA)

A social enterprise that handmakes, bio-degradable paper straws that can be broken down and transformed into a strawberry plant.

PrimeSlime (Redbank Plains SHS, QLD)

PrimeSlime is a social enterprise business that produces fragrant smelling slimes in eye catching containers intended for young children at an affordable price

Plants for Prosperity (Marsden SHS, QLD)

Our business sells pot plants and donates a portion of profits to an Australian owned charity.

Meet the Semi Final 7 Judges

Alex Afflick

CTO

Audeara

Leanne Williams

Campus Coordinator

CQUniversity

Tim Walmsley

CEO

BenchOn

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SEMI FINAL 8: THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER | 1.30PM  – 2.30PM AEST

Waste2Warmth (Fairholme College, QLD)

Our Waste2Warmth blankets consider both the problems of fast fashion waste as well as homelessness. Through this, we have created a blanket using preloved clothing.

colourme (Kenmore SHS, QLD)

Themed washable and reusable tables cloths ideal for restaurants, cafes and home entertainment, for children to colour in with washable markers.

stikky (Marymount College, QLD)

Eco-friendly and sustainable surf wax accompanied by other surf products. A surf shop with a difference.

Happy Minds (St Andrew’s Anglican College, QLD)

Our solution is care packages that help bring awareness to mental health and to help distract people from their mental health problems.

Bliss & Bio (Pioneer SHS, QLD)

My solution aims to decrease the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfill by replacing non-sustainable ‘scrunchable’ packaging with biodegradable packaging.

Meet the Semi Final 8 Judges

Tom Allen

CEO

Impact Boom

Sheeta Deo

Founder

Shakti Legal Solutions

Joel Hillier

Director

Solesearcher Adventures