The Science and Engineering Challenge is a two-day event that aims to encourage students of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) streams at schools to consider tertiary advancement in these critical career paths by subjecting them to challenging, practical projects over a short timeframe. The students work in teams for approximately two hours on each of two of the eight projects throughout the day, gaining points as each project progresses towards completion. The Gold Coast event this year on the 12/13 of June 2024 was held at All Saints Anglican School for the first time, where the facilities were truly first class. There were eight schools representing the State Sector and eight Private School representatives. Results were close with Hillcrest Christian College the winners on Wednesday and Benowa State High School on Thursday.
512 students from 16 Gold Coast Schools participated and all were very motivated and enjoyed the day as did all Challenge organizers. A big thankyou to Ian Wilson, who acted as an organizer for our club, and to members Andrew Svenson, Brad Francis, Brian McAllan, Michel Hyland, Robyn Schatz and Rob Deshon for assisting with the running of the program.
