Smart Seeds Newcastle is now complete!

A huge congratulations to our Newcastle participants who presented their final solutions at our Showcase Event. The winners of the Judges’ Award were ‘SURFDOM’, an on-demand surf and beach protection solution to challenge ‘Save the beach’. The Peoples’ Choice Award went to the app-based solution ‘Tradie Up!’, which tackled the challenge, ‘Vocation Nation’. Check out the coverage of the main event and videos of the winning solutions below!

Participating Organisations

Smart Seeds Program Design and City Support

Challenges and Teams

Challenge A:

How might we prevent erosion and return amenity to Stockton beach and surrounding areas?

Challenge B:

How might we ensure Newcastle is a resilient and thriving city through a time of transition and into the future – beyond the boom?

Newcastle - The boom and beyond-compressed

Challenge C:

How might we improve access to social and recreational facilities, and community events in the Hunter region for people with disabilities and their carers?

Equal access-compressed

Challenge D:

How might we help create a more innovative future, establishing the Hunter region as an internationally recognised thriving hub of technology and advanced manufacturing?

Hunter economic renewal-compressed

Challenge E:

How might we help Newcastle CBD become a hub for high performance, low energy, zero emission buildings?

Newcastle CBD - towards net zero

Challenge F:

How might we attract Gen Z talent to vocational and apprenticeship pathways, to best utilise their skills to solve the problems of the future?

Tradie Up

Save the beach