2026 Models & Inventions Prize Winners
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*Please note this list is not indicative of place winners, entries have been listed in alphabetical order. Prize winners will find out the outcome of their entry at the Presentation Ceremony.
Prize Winners
- R-2 Prize Winners
- 3-4 Prize Winners
- 5-6 Prize Winners
- 7-8 Prize Winners
- 9-10 Prize Winners
- 11-12 Prize Winners
Highly Commended
- R-2 Highly Commended
- 3-4 Highly Commended
- 5-6 Highly Commended
- 7-8 Highly Commended
- 9-10 Highly Commended
- 11-12 Highly Commended
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R-2 Prize Winners
Ethan Gao
St Andrew's School
Project: Models And Inventions
Jerry McInnes
Mercedes College
Project: Take Flight!
Nina Murchland
Edwardstown Primary School
Project: Why our planet has seasons
3-4 Prize Winners
Menara Jayawardhana, Maya Theodoros, Dinaaya Kuruppu Nanayakkara
East Adelaide School
Project:
Lukas Klose
St David's Parish School
Project: Momentum
Sayuni Malinsa Manathunga
Richmond Primary School
Project: Behind the Lens.
5-6 Prize Winners
Kai Newcombe
Fulham North Primary School
Project: Noise Detector
Talia Pennino
St David's Parish School
Project: How does the angle of a solar panel affect the amount of electricity it produces?
Zander Pienaar
Sunrise Christian School - Marion
Project: Around the House Inventions
7-8 Prize Winners
Jesaya Brandt
Cedar College
Project: SensaSolesTM
Lucy Rayner, Abbie Smith, Chloe Moo
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: More Than Meets the Eye
James Reimann
Concordia College
Project: 3D Printed Model of the Nervous System
9-10 Prize Winners
Juwayriyah Elfayoumi, Leah El-Maryati, Rauzat Nawar
Pinnacle College - Golden Grove
Project: Geodesic Wind Turbine
Serena Thai
St Aloysius College
Project: The Journey of Sound
Charlotta Wache
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: Kirigami in action
11-12 Prize Winners
Shaya Ismail
Wilderness School
Project: Underwater ROV with optimally integrated visual, retrieval and control system
Muhammad Saarim Siddiqui
IQRA College
Project: Navigation aiding glasses for elderly and blind people
2026 Models & Inventions Highly Commended
R-2 Highly Commended
Aisha Ali
Australian Islamic College Adelaide
Project: Phases of Moon
Connor Benger
Concordia College - St Peters
Project: Pond Ecosystem
Patrick Bolto
Kangaroo Island Community Education
Project: Why do shells sound like the sea?
Eric Branscombe
East Marden Primary School
Project: Hydrogen Train
Aurora Kuhn
Pilgrim School
Project: Why do volcanoes shoot lava rocks?
Zii Heng Lau
Stradbroke School
Project: Tectonic plates boundaries & movements
Sofia Salah
Australian Islamic College Adelaide
Project:
Sebastian Taylor
Kangaroo Island Community Education
Project: Whirlpools & Fluid dynamics
3-4 Highly Commended
Alexa Sze Ling Au
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: Bleeding in the Brain
Austin Bosco
Hillcrest Primary School
Project: Quantum satellite communication model
Aimee Cui
St Peter's Girls' School
Project: How grass growth affects desertification
Tarasha Dhanda
Glen Osmond Primary School
Project: Mini Vacuum Cleaner - Working Model
Wasif Haque, Ammar Norhanafi
IQRA College
Project: Pollinators
Denzel Jiang
St Peter's College
Project: Saturn V Rocket
Bree Koch, Piper Vanderkwast
McLaren Flat Primary School
Project: Systems of the Human Body
Reinhold Mayer
St Peter's College
Project: Medieval Angry Birds
Austin Moses
St Peter's College
Project: Hydraulic Rocket
Jacob Newton
Sunrise Christian School - Marion
Project: How Hybrids Work
Idris Odah, Ismail Odah
Australian Islamic College Adelaide
Project: Archaeopteryx
Isabella Shepherd, Hannah Zhao, Theodore Altus
Immanuel Lutheran School Gawler
Project: Coral Exploration
Jasper Stone
Athelstone School
Project: How Jasper Is Formed
Corbin Treloar
Kangaroo Island Community Education
Project: Layers of the ocean
5-6 Highly Commended
Chloe Chambers
Sunrise Christian School - Morphett Vale
Project: Pollen Lifters
Mason Crawford, James Thomas
Immanuel Lutheran School Gawler
Project: The Science Behind Electrical Transmission
Edison Enthoven
Sunrise Christian School - Marion
Project: The Wizard Train
Dylan Ey
Blackwood Primary School
Project: Miniature Magnetic Levitation
Selim Farukshin
Pinnacle College - Elizabeth East
Project:
Caitlyn Howard
Mercedes College
Project: EpiPen vs Allergic Reaction
Walker Mills
Hawthorndene Primary School
Project: 3D Scanning with DAR technology
Kayla Start
Trinity College - South
Project:
Charlotte Watts
McLaren Flat Primary School
Project: Effects of Mt Vesuvius Eruptions
Keegan Wilson
Sunrise Christian School - Marion
Project: Generating Electricity by Walking
Isabel Wilson
Wilderness School
Project: Underground Wonders
Emma Zuo, Ella Zuo
St Andrew's School
Project: Living Beyond Earth
7-8 Highly Commended
Vivian Atze
Lameroo Regional Community School
Project: Why do we get wrinkles after being in water?
Hugo Bell
Lameroo Regional Community School
Project: Why do humans get pins and needles
Nithyasri Yazhini Dhachina, Maryam Cedra Sawad
Wilderness School
Project: Project BloomWatch
Isabelle Dickson, Lucinda Wiles
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: Pump It Up: The Power Of The Heart
Jackson Kerley
Lameroo Regional Community School
Project: How are red blood cells made
Marley Willcox
Lameroo Regional Community School
Project: How does whale sharks ingest food.
9-10 Highly Commended
Rayeed Alam, Imran Hasan, Yuosuf Madien
IQRA College
Project: Morphing Wings for Commercial Aircraft
Emily Chan
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College
Project: Spriggina Floundersi model
Mihrimah Geyik
Pinnacle College - Golden Grove
Project: Project A
Mia Karoubas, Mila Kaouna
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: How UV Radiation Penetrates the Skin
Sophie Kleinschmidt, Isabella Li, Karin Lee
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: Animal Evolution
Selby Mazel, Yahong Collins, Winsome Matheson
Walford Anglican School for Girls
Project: Lights of the Deep
Navraj Singh, Sukhman Singh
Mount Carmel College
Project: AI Fire Predictive Sensor Network
Pyper Tachos, Ruby Pryor, Raha Danyali
Mount Carmel College
Project: Skin Safety
Justace Wagner, Aella Adamson
Mount Compass Area School
Project: A Sensory Neuron
11-12 Highly Commended
Daisy Astley
Mount Carmel College
Project: Hubble Telescope
Francisco Calderer-Benitez
Cardijn College
Project: Deepwater Guardian - Multirole submarine for environmental and security operations in Australia
Norvin Rajput
Roma Mitchell Secondary College
Project:
Aurora Templer
Prescott College Southern
Project: SWIMS: Suspended Water Imaging and Monitoring System
