Ashley

The crazy collaborators are quirky and crazy and unique. They're very clever little people that are going to be probably all of our bosses one day. They really just loved every minute of Game Changer, and they your perfect team to have in the competition.

Producer

What's your team name?

Students

Crazy Collaborators.

Producer

Who's going to win?

Students

Us!

Catherine

We have two enrichment classes running this year, and we were really looking for projects that they could really sink their teeth into, and we thought the Game Changer Challenge is going to give them a chance to learn more about the world, look in more depth, and do a lot of research, but also work collaboratively. First couple of lessons were really brainstorming ideas, or things in our local area that needed to be changed.

Charlie

We thought of our idea because we're surrounded by the National Park where we live, and all of us have pets. Sometimes they bring home dead animals, and we wanted to try and figure out a way to try and stop that from happening.

Nate

We designed an app that has an alarm system, that if your animal passes the fence line of your house, it will alert you on your phone, your pet has escaped. It will show you your pet's location using a microchip in the collar, and you can go get it.

Ashley

Through the semifinals, I think that's where the app idea came from. They had to come up with 50 ideas of what they could do with their problem. They really honed in on their idea about the app, and went into the Grand Final with that idea.

Nate

Hello, camera!

Adelyn

When we walked into the headquarters, we were really amazed, and all the people there made it a fun experience.

Ashley

On the last day, they were like a bundle of activity. They were just so excited. They got to set up their booth, and you could tell how passionate they were about their idea.

Adelyn

On the pitch day, we were probably all really nervous. Some of us were excited, and when we actually did it, we probably felt really confident in ourselves, 'cause we did a good job.

Charlie

Yeah. We kept getting better and better.

Male announcer

Oyster Bay Public School!

Allegra

They called our school name, and I'm just like, "Wait, what?"

Charlie

Yeah, we were on the verge of tears, and I almost passed out.

Eliza

Looked at each other and we went (gasps).

Charlie

We were gobsmacked.

Catherine

Could not be prouder of them. They've worked so hard for it.

Ashley

When they went up to accept their medal, their little faces just made it all worth it.

Allegra

The Game Changer experience was really amazing, because we got to work with our friends, incorporate new ideas, and got to meet new people.

Ashley

Knowing that their idea they came up within the classroom in term one, developed into something that real investors are interested in, having people like Apple, and Amazon go, "Wow, this is amazing." That for them to actually know they can do that, is awesome.

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Annalissa

Watching them rush up and be presented with their medals was so exciting. I was so proud for them.

Amelie

We were all so, like, proud, and all amazed that all our hard work has paid off.

Student

It's the most important achievement that I've ever done in my life.

Student

It's been so cool, the experience of flying up, because we're on a virtual school. I never see my friends. Just seeing everybody, it's an amazing opportunity.

Annalissa

Hi, Silke. Hi, Flynn.

Student

Hi, Miss Roy. How are you?

Annalissa

When we began the Game Changer Challenge, MAJAM's original entry was about portable gardens. They were really interested in bringing healthy food, healthy eating to communities that had experienced disasters. And, as it evolved through, like, the entry process to the semis, so, then to the finals, they refined and really narrowed down their ideas, which all came out of their own experiences.

Amelie

When the Game Changer challenge started, my community was going through their, like, third major flood. Everyone on my team had that personal experience. They could put their feet in other people's shoes and feel how they would feel, and 'cause we did know how they felt, and so, yeah, I think that definitely just inspired our design.

So, we created a green wellbeing machine, which brings, like, herbs, veggies, flowers, spices to supplement the food that people in natural disaster affected communities are getting to, like, improve their mental wellbeing.

Annalissa

They wanted to bring some greenery, and some autonomy, and some choice and familiarity that people could pick out and add to the meals that were being given or the relief supplies from various emergency organisations.

Between the semis and the grand final, the students did a lot of research.

Amelie

Our team created all these surveys that we put out on different natural disaster Facebook pages, and we contacted local MPs and council members that helped us give a better understanding of how we could help the community.

Annalissa

Since Team MAJAM are all over the state, we actually had to fly them all into Sydney for the Game Changer finals. It was really exciting to see how these relationships had developed online, translated into a real-life context, because it was only the second chance we'd had to meet our students in person.

Amelie

It was really good to, like, finally do the last pitch and so much work had been put into it. We were all really nervous, but really excited, too, 'cause we were very proud of our design.

Annalissa

They sold their idea, passion and energy and creativeness all came out. I could see that they had achieved something really special.

Amelie

There has been so much that I've taken away from the Game Changer journey. One of the council members, he was gonna send our idea onto top, like, funding ministers. So, that was really cool to see that our idea may actually become reality one day.

Annalissa

I can see that it's inspired them to think a little bit wider, to use all the skills they've been developing, in their time with us, and with their home schools, and apply it to a really wicked problem.

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Aisha

So when we heard our name, I think we were just so surprised and we were just kind of got up like "Oh my goodness, we won."

Student

We got up there, we were just looking at everyone in the room and were like far out. We won.

I think for me the confidence of that, so many people in that room, if they believed in us and they think that we had the capability to take our idea forward, that just really pushed me to go, "Yeah we can do something with this idea because of how important it's to so much people."

Camera man

Three, two, one.

All together

Game Changer!

Nicholas

We got into Game Changer by integrating it into our curriculum as a way to engage in that sort of design thinking, real world challenges to make the learning that we're doing in classroom more realistic and authentic.

Aisha

Quick Stitches mission was to utilise tech in first aid kits to help teachers and students feel safe when using emergency equipment. So we used RFID chips alongside an app to help give instructions and emergency procedures for when someone may need help.

Thomas

If you have your phone you can just scan it with the back of your phone and then it pops up in our app and then everything is there at your fingertips.

Oliver

We interviewed teachers around the school and at the finals and we found a lot of them just weren't confident. So by creating a first aid kit, we would just help them to be more confident and help students more.

Aisha

We also analysed the school's first aid kits. So that was a big part of our research so we could work out where the problem lied.

Student

Leading up to the finals, mostly it was just getting together at lunch, lunch and recess, taking time out of class to really make our idea concrete, 'cause if we were sure of ourselves, we upped our chances that other people could understand our idea.

Aisha

Definitely the nerves got the better of us during the pitch. It was a great pitch and we really got our idea across but there was quite a bit of stuttering.

Thomas

We just looked at all the people and we're like wow, we just spoke and I think we did a good job.

Nicholas

When we won, it was very overwhelming. I was like, wow, we've actually won this entire thing.

Aisha

I think it just showed how our hard work did pay off and how all the work leading up to it really showed how we came together as a team.

Thomas

Teamwork makes the dream work. There's no way any of us could have done all that by ourselves. We all worked together, shared our ideas and helped each other.

Nicholas

They might not admit it, but they are really proud of the work that they've done and I'm proud of the result that they've achieved and I'm proud of them too.

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