The 2025 Future Makers STEM Inventors Challenge is open to Years 5 to 10 students in the Gladstone and Western Downs Region. Participation is free.
Working in groups of 2–4, students in Years 5–10 will have 10 weeks (including school holidays) to explore amazing engineering feats which have changed the local community and the world. Their task is to generate, define, design, refine and produce an EPIC Engineering prototype and exhibit, to submit to a panel of judges at World Science Festival Queensland in either Chinchilla or Gladstone.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
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Registrations for Home Education students are encouraged.
Email futuremakers@qm.qld.gov.au to express your interest in an upcoming challenge.
2025 Registrations are closed
Winners will be announced Friday 29 August at
World Science festival Queensland, Gladstone
2025 Registrations are closed
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
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