Announcing the 2024 MAIC QLD Student Bionics Innovation Challenge

Are you a Queensland university student? This is your chance to showcase your early-stage innovations for game-changing bionic devices, implants or treatments.

Enter your team’s ‘new to the world’ idea, or an innovation that delivers a marked improvements in the design and end-user benefits of a medical bionic device, implant or treatment.

Eligible bionic innovations must sit within one or more of our focus innovation domains: bionic mobility, bionic senses, brain-computer interfaces, and bionic implants and organs.

With the core theme of Innovating with Medical Bionics to Respond to Trauma, Related Disability and Disease, all projects must directly benefit the recovery, rehabilitation and quality of life of motor accident survivors.

To inspire your team to enter the Student Bionics Challenge this year, watch the announcement of Student Bionics Innovation Challenge 2022 winners (see below) by Mr Neil Singleton on behalf of the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) Qld, our major funding partner for this Challenge.

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Previous Student Bionics Challenge Winners

In 2022, five incredible student teams from the Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University and the University of the Sunshine Coast shared in $15,000, through Australia’s inaugural Student Bionics Innovation Challenge.

Take a peek at these amazing innovations in the winners’ video profiles.

Are you ready to enter the 2024 MAIC Qld Student Bionics Innovation Challenge?