Competitions
REELise Film Festival
The REELise Film Festival is designed to give young people an opportunity to share their stories about navigating digital life to entertain, educate and inspire positive change online. National finalists feature online and in cinema. You can be part of a fun youth oriented event and win great prizes including cash, filmmaking equipment and industry experiences.
The 2023 Competition theme is “Footprint”.
Entry is free and open to young people 10-18 years in each State and Territory of Australia.
Entries close 9 July 2023.
Find out more and enter here: https://www.reelise.org.au/create-and-influence/
Tax, Super + You Competition
If you’re a student in years 7–12, we want you to unleash your creativity and find a way to tell us about tax and super! Our competition will not only give you an insight into the value of tax and super, but you have the chance to win a share of $13,200 in prizes!
For your chance to become Australia’s next tax and super creative genius, you must:
- be a student in years 7–12
- be enrolled in the Australian education system
- submit an entry – up to 3 entries per person/group only
- complete a separate entry form for each entry
- complete a film or photo consent form for each person shown in your entry
- comply with the competition’s terms and conditions – including only using music with permission or an appropriate licence.
Entries are open from 29 May to 25 August 2023.
Find out more and enter here: https://www.taxsuperandyou.gov.au/competition
The Parliament Prize 2023
Each year, the Parliament of Victoria asks students across the state, from Grade 5 to Year 12, to share what you would say to parliament if you were an MP. This is a chance to talk about the issues that are important to you and your community. Record your own 90-second Member’s Statement video and you could win prizes, for you and your school!
A prize of $500 and a commemorative trophy will be awarded to the first-placed entry in each category.
There will also be prizes of $250 to the second-placed entries and $125 to the third-placed entries in each age group.
An award of $1,000 will be made to each first-placed student’s school, which will ideally be used to promote civics and citizenship and law-related education within these schools, at the schools’ discretion.
Entries close 16 June.
Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition 2023
Entries are now open to the 2023 Plan Your Own Enterprise (PYOE) Competition.
In up to 3,500 words students should present a creative idea for a small business as a business plan.
The competition is open to all full-time secondary school students. Students can work individually or in a team.
Entries are open until Friday 15 September.
Find out more and enter here.
2023 UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing
The annual UNSW Bragg Prize is a science essay writing competition open to all Australian high school students in years 7 to 10. Not only are there some awesome prizes up for grabs for you and your class – it’s a great way to complement your studies across all areas including Science, English, History & Geography, Design & Technology and more!
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been a big part of the news for 2023: it’s already a big part of our lives and is rapidly evolving. How does science and technology use or benefit from AI and how should we best navigate a future where AI is part of our everyday lives?
In this essay, use 800 words to explore how we use and benefit from AI, with a particular focus on science.
The winner will be awarded a $500 UNSW Bookshop voucher. Two runners up with receive $250 book vouchers.
The competition closes 5pm August 25, 2023.
Find out more and enter here.