2024 Game Changer Challenge
Congratulations to the Game Changer Challenge 2024 teams who worked to solve the wicked problem to 'Make life better for all without harming the planet'.
This year the Game Changer Challenge received a record number of more than 400 video submissions.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the challenge. The judging panel of industry experts were very impressed with the enthusiasm and deep understanding shown by the students of the wicked problem. The judges were also inspired by the passion, creativity and commitment to solving this year’s problem.
A total of 120 teams participated in 1 of 5 virtual semifinals held in Term 3. Teams worked to define their problem and ideate to identify a solution before pitching their idea to a panel of industry partners.
The 20 grand final teams took part in the live grand final event held in Parramatta from 5-7 November 2024.
Grand final winners
Congratulations to the Game Changer Challenge 2024 grand final award winners. Learn more about the champion teams in the news article written by the Game Changer Challenge student reporters.
Primary champion
Pacific Palms Public School - Mindful Masterminds
Secondary champion
Auburn Girls High School - DAYTS
UNICEF Impact award
Mudgee Public School - MPS Game Changer Team
Prototype award
Kooringal High School - Funky Monkeys
Teamwork award
Bowral High School - BHS Game Changers
Primary school grand final teams
Alstonville Public School - The MVP's
Bangalow Public School - The Green Walkers
Bellevue Hill Public School - The Good Guys
Bonnet Bay Public School - BBPS Funguys
Cudgegong Valley Public School - Cudgee Roos
Girraween Public School - The Furious 5
Lisarow Public School - Lisarow Legends
Mudgee Public School - MPS Game Changer Team
Newbridge Heights Public School - Ursa Major
North Rocks Public School - Cheerful Champions
Pacific Palms Public School - Mindful Masterminds
Rose Bay Public School - The Wicked Five
Yarrawarrah Public School - Protein Pioneers
High School grand final teams
Armidale Secondary College - PHABulous
Auburn Girls High School - DAYTS
Bowral High School - BHS Game Changers
Cherrybrook Technology High School - The Masterminds
Kooringal High School - Funky Monkeys
Ryde Secondary College - Bartholomew
Willoughby Girls High School - The Hands Behind the Brands
Primary school semifinalists
- Alexandria Park Community School - Mighty Movers
- Alexandria Park Community School - Pizza Book
- Alstonville Public School - The Harmonious Hummingbirds
- Alstonville Public School - The MVP's
- Alstonville Public School - The Golden Game Changers
- Armidale City Public School - The Wicked Puzzlers
- Armidale City Public School - The Stress Eaters
- Ashfield Public School - Cob-nificient Cob
- Ashfield Public School - Techformers
- Ashfield Public School - Mushroom Masters
- Aurora College - The Housing Heros
- Aurora College - MISSION: POSSIBLE
- Aurora College - Sheltering Hands Coalition
- Austinmer Public School - The Wicked Thinkers
- Austinmer Public School - The Brainwaves
- Balmain Public School - Balmain Heroes
- Balmain Public School - Team Street Saviours
- Bangalow Public School - The Green Walkers
- Bangalow Public School - Cuckoo Kookaburras
- Beauty Point Public School - Beauty Point Financial Fixers
- Beauty Point Public School - Beauty Point Air Cleaners
- Beauty Point Public School - Beauty Point Innovators
- Bellevue Hill Public School - The Good Guys
- Belmont Public School - Belmont BAG's
- Blaxcell Street Public School - The Echoes
- Bonnet Bay Public School - BBPS Funguys
- Byron Bay Public School - Brainiacs
- Caddies Creek Public School - Nature Nerds
- Caddies Creek Public School - Plastic Preventers
- Canowindra Public School - Cano Yabbies
- Caringbah North Public School - Book Barter
- Chertsey Primary School - Flawless 5
- Chertsey Primary School - Road Sentinels
- Coogee Public School - Mind Strong Allies
- Coogee Public School - Brain Bending Bumblebees
- Crestwood Public School - Crestwood Creators
- Cudgegong Valley Public School - World Warriors
- Cudgegong Valley Public School - Cudgee Roos
- Darcy Road Public School - Creative Champions
- Darcy Road Public School - The Innate Inventors
- Dobroyd Point Public School - The Green Team
- Dudley Public School - The Creative Chameleons
- Evans River Community School - Maniac Brainiacs
- Evans River Community School - Mini Einsteins
- Girraween Public School - Furious 5
- Grafton Public School - Famous V
- Hobartville Public School - OSTO - Operation Save the Ocean
- Kingscliff Public School - Kingy Kids
- Kingscliff Public School - Kingy Koalas
- Lawson Public School - The Smart Cookies
- Lawson Public School - Lawson Lyrebirds
- Leura Public School - The Funky Monkeys
- Leura Public School - The Gangsta Grillz
- Leura Public School - The Scientific Skinks
- Leura Public School - FBI
- Lindfield Public School - Cringey Corns
- Lindfield Public School - Daring Dumplings
- Lindfield Public School - Environmental Echidnas
- Lisarow Public School - Lisarow Legends
- Marrickville Public School - The Passionate Peacemaking Pineapples
- Mount Terry Public School - FIERCE Mob
- Mount Terry Public School - FIERCE Aqua
- Mount Terry Public School - FIERCE Technology Changers
- Mudgee Public School - MPS Game Changer Team
- Narrabeen Lakes Public School - Narrabeen Game Takers
- Narrabeen Lakes Public School - Narrabeen Seagulls
- New Lambton South Public School - Change Gamers
- New Lambton South Public School - Innovating H2O's
- Newbridge Heights Public School - Ursa Major
- Nords Wharf Public School - Stage 3 Next Gen Navigators
- North Rocks Public School - The Revolutionists
- North Rocks Public School - The Quintessential Quintet
- North Rocks Public School - The Insane Innovators
- North Rocks Public School - Cheerful Champions
- Oyster Bay Public School - The Wildlife Warriors
- Oyster Bay Public School - The Fiery Five
- Pacific Palms Public School - Mindful Masterminds
- Port Macquarie Public School - Stop, Drop and Roll
- Riverbank Public School - Fresh Food Fanatics
- Riverbank Public School - Green Dream Team
- Rose Bay Public School - The Wicked Five
- Sandon Public School - Whimsical wildcards
- Seven Hills West Public School - Eco-Innovators
- South Coogee Public School - Little Einstein Sisters
- South Grafton Public School - Team Waterways
- South Grafton Public School - South Grafton Pioneers
- South Grafton Public School - The Four Roos
- Sturt Public School - Aid Innovators
- Sturt Public School - The Cool Crocs
- Sturt Public School - Project: Pi
- Sturt Public School - Masterminds United
- Sutherland Public School - Diamond Dioxides
- Sutherland Public School - The Fossil Fuel Fighters
- Sutherland Public School - The Dreaming Passionfruits
- Wentworth Falls Public School - The Poverty Protectors
- William Bayldon Public School - Bayldon Operation Collaboration
- Wirreanda Public School - Wastage Warriors
- Wirreanda Public School - ECO ENERGY ENGINEERS
- Woollahra Public School - The Innovative Bears
- Yarrawarrah Public School - Protein Pioneers
High school semifinalists
- Armidale Secondary College - PHABulous
- Asquith Girls High School - Yes or Gnome?
- Asquith Girls High School - Asquith F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
- Auburn Girls High School - DAYTS
- Bossley Park High School - Bossley Blazers
- Bowral High School - BHS Game Changers
- Cherrybrook Technology High School - The Masterminds
- Endeavour Sports High School - Fanplastic 5
- Hurlstone Agricultural High School - Apollo 24
- Kooringal High School - Funky Monkeys
- Moorebank High School - The Tide Turners
- North Sydney Boys High School - Decongesters
- North Sydney Boys High School - Recycling Masters
- Parramatta High School - The Climate Changers
- Ryde Secondary College - Bartholomew
- Terrigal High School - The Unknowns
- Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College Berkeley Vale Campus - Flourishing Future
- Warners Bay High School - The Fire Extinguishers
- Willoughby Girls High School - The Hands Behind the Brands
- Willoughby Girls High School - AMOKS Carbon Action