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ILLUMINATE CHALLENGE
The Illuminate Challenge is a Real World Problem Solving Experience : Student teams tackle authentic community or industry briefs, taking a problem through a structured six-stage innovation process: Foundations, Ideation, Developing, Presenting, Prototyping, and Implementation and creating a solution for their community.
It is with great pride that we share that our Illuminate Challenge team were crowned First Place Overall - Overall Best Solution
We also won 2 additional categories:
• Best Presentation - Professional Staff Judging
• Best Demonstration- Community Hall Judging
It’s really hard to explain what a complex challenge this is; Think Shark Tank on steroids, Scavenger Hunt, but searching for answers about Business, Creative Applications and IT Development, then developing them and bringing it all together whilst running across the UoN campus in multiple different directions and pulling together at the end to present to a full lecture theatre with Professionals and Academics and Elders judging final results…. All whilst being strategically timed to the minute!
Challenge Topic - HEALTH ‘Think of a solution for a medical issue in our community’
Our Issue - No Aboriginal Medical Services locally
Our Solution - Mobile Medical Bus (wrapped in Floss’s artworks) that brings holistic health services to Isolated Regional areas.
After collating our work, we head to the Hall to set up a display and share and talk to a big community to gain community vote and talk to politicians, Community members and Deputy Vice Chancellors to sell our solution. Sounds tiring, and insane but super challenging and super fun and our students stood up and stood out. Somehow, despite being separated for the most part over 3 days, we came back, pieced our work all together and culminated in a win.
We are especially excited to share that we had the UoN Aboriginal Research Team and Dr Tamika Ridgeway approach us about supporting our solution to bring it to life! We now go to the State Level Challenge.
Please congratulate Declan, Memphis, Milla, Floss & Ayiana for their hard work
