Digital Makers Competition
Open to all students and staff across all disciplines and faculties. No skills required. No team required. Completely free.
The Digital Makers Competition is tailor-made for those who want to build and showcase their digital making skills with tools as early as drawing, to Figma, Unity and beyond. If you have an itch to build something wholly or partly digital, code or no-code, design-only or development-ready, whether terrible and early or exceptional and polished — this is the program for you!
The competition encourages applications from anyone and any team exploring ideas in domains as focussed as native and web app design, to as open as spatial and virtual/augmented reality computing. We don't care how big your idea is. You could be building a website to track fantasy F1 teams, recording a podcast on the state of textile trades in Ancient Greece, or coding a spatial reality app for Apple Vision Pro. Anything you're interested in is something we're interested in.
Learn more about how our program can help you level-up fundamental digital prototyping skills, showcase your ongoing development efforts over a series of IRL Workshops, get feedback and iterate from advice shared by an extensive network of mentors across UNSW and industry, and ultimately drive your idea forward.
And for the best digital makers... $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to winning individuals or teams selected to present at Demo Day.
Applications for T1 2024 have closed.
If you have any questions, get in touch at mcic@unsw.edu.au.
Join the most exciting competition on campus!
Join the most exciting competition on campus!
About this Competition
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You’ll gain new skills, knowledge, ways of thinking, friends and opportunities:
Participate in hands-on digital prototyping skill-building workshops every week.
Get access to a world-class coaching, mentoring and startup community with global experience.
Cash prizes will be awarded to winning individuals or teams.
Participants retain all intellectual property generated as part of the competition by themselves and/or their group, where afforded in accordance with the UNSW IP Policy.
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The program is no longer being offered in 2024. It may be offered again in 2025.
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The Digital Makers Competition is open to both individuals and teams across any faculty. No prior skills are required.
If you’re applying by yourself, you must be a current UNSW student or member of staff.
Current students include those pursuing under/post-graduate qualifications or are existing HDR candidates.
If you’re applying as a team:
Teams must have between 2 and 5 members.
The team leader must be a current UNSW student or member of staff. Other team members do not need to be affiliated with UNSW.
All team members must apply individually and specify the team name correctly on the form.
Team members must not participate in more than one team.
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To progress through this competition to the Pitch Night, you or your team should focus on demonstrating:
Progress: how much has your idea progressed throughout the Workshop Days, and how do you demonstrate this?
Community contribution: how much are you helping others and how much value are you adding to the community?
Creativity and innovation: is there a healthy appreciation for aesthetics and the use of technology for social or commercial impact?
Usability: is your prototype easy to use and is it’s UX backed by research and testing?
Applications for T1 2024 have closed.
If you have any questions, get in touch at mcic@unsw.edu.au.