Prizes and awards
The Endeavour Awards Night is your chance to earn recognition for your hard work. There are multiple prizes to be won. Find out what you could be eligible for.
The Endeavour Awards Night is your chance to earn recognition for your hard work. There are multiple prizes to be won. Find out what you could be eligible for.
The Endeavour Awards celebrate the Departmental Awards, Industry Awards and People's Choice Award and are presented at the Endeavour Awards night on the evening of the Endeavour Exhibition.
This exciting event takes place after the Endeavour Exhibition on Wednesday 18 October.
The Departmental Awards are presented to the top project in each discipline, while other prizes and awards require a separate applications to be eligible. There are many fantastic prizes and awards on offer and we encourage you to apply.
The Industry Awards application process relies on your ability to communicate your project's progress and how your project meet the goals of the award, so it's important that you follow the application process and relate your project to the topic.
Endeavour sponsored and industry-specific awards
All students participating in Endeavour are eligible for awards generously provided by our industry sponsors and donors.
IMarEST Endeavour Award
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) is the international professional body and learned society for all marine professionals.
The IMarEST Endeavour Award, established in 2015, will consist of one first prize of $2500 to one final-year student project team participating in the 2023 Endeavour Engineering & IT Exhibition. The award is open to project teams from any department.
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QinetiQ Endeavour Award
QinetiQ are a company of over 6,000 dedicated people providing technological and scientific expertise that helps our customers protect, improve and advance their vital interests. Everything we do is about delivering on our purpose. It connects everyone who works for QinetiQ around the world together, giving us all focus, direction and a unique sense of pride.
QinetiQ’s values of Integrity, Collaboration and Performance are the foundation of our business.
This award seeks to recognise the critical part these values play in innovation. The award will consist of one first prize of $5,000. The award is open to final-year student project teams participating in the 2023 Endeavour Engineering & IT Exhibition from any department.
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Telstra Endeavour Prizes
Telstra Corporation Limited Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets. In Australia Telstra provide 18.8 million retail mobile services, 3.8 million retail fixed bundles and standalone data services and 960,000 retail fixed standalone voice services.
Telstra has invested $5.14 million to support Melbourne Connect , the new digital innovation precinct at the University of Melbourne. Telstra will help develop Australia’s pipeline of diverse technology talent through this partnership with the University of Melbourne, including sponsorship of the Telstra Creator Space at Melbourne Connect. This collaboration was designed to help current and future students develop the skills, experience and adaptability needed to succeed as Australia’s digital economy accelerates.
To continue to inspire the next generation of engineering and technology entrepreneurs, Telstra is proud to present the 2023 Telstra Endeavour Awards with three awards valued at $5000 for each of the following award categories:
1. Telstra Digital Pioneering & Tech Breakthrough Award
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2. Telstra Community Impact Excellence Award
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3. Telstra Data and Insights Excellence Award
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Airwallex Endeavour Prizes
The Airwallex Endeavour Awards look to inspire the next generation of engineering and technology entrepreneurs. Since 2015, Airwallex has grown rapidly due to its focus on providing the best customer-centric innovation solutions to clients. We are proud that we have been able to make doing global business easier for our stakeholders and recognise that our successes have stemmed from our people and their entrepreneurial mindsets.
Endeavour is a celebration of student innovation and inspires the next generation of students to contribute to solving real-world problems of today, and in the future. Coupled with Airwallex’s drive for innovation, we are proud to present two awards valued at $5000 for each of the following categories:
1. Customer-Centric Innovation Award
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2. Enhancing Social Impact through Innovation Award
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Endeavour Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Award
The University of Melbourne is home to some of the best thinkers in the world. The Research, Innovation and Commercialisation team (also called RIC) is there to help transform those ideas into reality. Research, Innovation and Commercialisation experts help translate research into beneficial outcomes for society by supporting researchers along the research, development and partnership continuum.
The 2023 Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Prize will comprise one prize of $5,000. The prize is awarded to a student project team participating in the 2023 Endeavour Engineering & IT Exhibition. The prize is open to all project teams.
The prize is looking for team who offer genuinely innovative approaches to solving challenging problems and have investigated the potential commercial applications of their final-year project. The application process will help teams develop skills and techniques to complement academic expertise. This broader, complementary set of skills and knowledge better prepare Endeavour teams for their professional careers.
Your application and presentation will be judged by commercialisation experts. Short-listed project teams will have the opportunity to present their application in a live ‘pitch’ to the judging panel at their booths on Endeavour Day.
You can either record and submit a 3–5-minute video addressing the questions below or submit a written application as per below.
Award process and Timelines
- Monday 24 July 2023
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Applications for the award will commence.
- Friday 8 September 2023
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Applications for the award close.
- Wednesday 13 - Wednesday 20 September 2023
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Judges will select and confirm 3-4 project groups as finalists for each award.
- Wednesday 18 October 2023
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Endeavour and Awards Night
Judging of finalist teams at their display booths:
- 10-minutes in total for each project group. Each project group will be asked to deliver the following:
1. A 3-minute pitch in regards to their project
2. Respond to questions during 5-minute Q&A time
People's Choice Award
Nominate your favourite project and go in the draw to win with the People’s Choice Award. Visit the in-person or online exhibition and scan your favourite project’s QR code to submit your vote. You can only vote once and we’ll be announcing the winner at the Endeavour Awards Night.
Voting is only open during the exhibition!
Project students, Endeavour volunteers, Endeavour Ambassadors and industry sponsors and partners participating in Endeavour are not permitted to vote.
Discipline Awards
The recipients of the Discipline Awards will be acknowledged at the Endeavour Awards Night.
The winning projects will receive prize money to be split amongst team members evenly. Funds for the awards have been generously bestowed from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Foundation.
The Foundation provides ongoing scholarships and awards based on academic merit and need. The Foundation is focused on generating financial and community support through relationships with industry, alumni and other groups that are interested in supporting the student experience at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.
Departmental Awards will be presented across the following disciplines (these disciplines are subject to change due to participation within each area).
- Biomedical Engineering Discipline Award
- Chemical Engineering Discipline Award
- Computing and Information Systems Discipline Award
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering Discipline Award
- Infrastructure Engineering Discipline Award
- Mechanical Engineering Discipline Award
- Mechatronic Engineering Discipline Award
Congratulations to our Endeavour Award winners for semester 1, 2023.