Competitions
Torrens University Australia Bright Awards
A celebration of creative Year 10, 11 and 12 students, the Bright Awards recognise up-and-coming designers and support the future of the arts in high schools across Australia. Whether you’re just tapping into your talent or keen to show off your well-developed skills, Billy Blue College of Design’s Bright Awards give you the chance to have your work recognised by industry experts. Plus, monetary prizes for both students and schools go towards kick-starting creative dreams.
What’s on offer? By entering the Bright Awards, you could win:
- A Category Finalist spot, earning yourself $1,000 plus a complimentary Creative Cloud license from Adobe.
- All Category Finalists are then put forward, where one could win the Pinnacle Award in Creativity & Innovation Excellence earning a further $1,500, a scholarship to study design and creative technology, and $5,000 for your school.
We’re looking for original ideas, demonstrated research and planning which results in a quality submission. We would love to see how your creative submission has been considered from a social, environmental or economic perspective too.
Entries are now open, and close 3 September 2023.
Find out more and enter here.
Adelaide Fringe Poster Competition 2024
The Adelaide Fringe Poster Competition is as iconic as the festival itself. Each year, the winning poster encapsulates the love and pride that people have for Fringe.
The winning poster will become the symbol of Adelaide Fringe 2024, with the artist receiving a $6,000 cash prize and free artist registration to present their own exhibition as part of the 2024 Adelaide Fringe.
Adelaide Fringe encourages professionals, beginners and hobbyists to enter the poster competition in the hopes of their artwork becoming the symbol of Australia’s biggest arts festival. There are no rules regarding the level of artistic or design experience.
Entries close 11:59PM ACST, Sunday 13 August 2023.
Find out more and enter here.
Sony World Photography Awards Youth Competition
Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards Youth Competition are open.
The brief for this year’s Youth competition is ‘Through Your Eyes’. What is your (and your generation’s) perception of the world? From your family to the local environment to your day-to-day life, show us what – through your eyes – are the subjects and themes you want to photograph and share. Whatever the genre, technique or subject matter, we want to see your photographs. You can enter up to three images for free.
The competition is open until 5 January 2024.
Find out more and enter here.
Australian Science and Engineering Fair 2023
AUSSEF invites Australian school students from Year 9-12 who have completed a substantial project in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics to enter their project into the 2023 edition of AUSSEF.
A two-staged national judging process will select the team who will win an all-expenses-paid-trip to compete at the Regeneron ISEF in Los Angeles, California from May 11-17, 2024 (pending funding).
Submissions are due Friday 17th November, 2023.
Find out more and enter here.