SHOWCASE
Pitch 2 Panel Showcase 2021
This student showcase shares with the Monash community the inspired, bold, and sustainable futures we all want for our cities.
What is Pitch 2 Panel?
During the Lockdown period and amidst ongoing restrictions on face-to-face learning, Monash Tech School partnered with John Monash Science School to provide skills development and real-world thinking opportunities.
Pitch 2 Panel encourages students to apply STEAM practices with entrepreneurial solutions to real-world problems. This term's Pitch 2 Panel prompted students to explore sustainable technologies and urban planning to help an industrialised city in crisis.
The top 10 teams pitched their design to a panel of industry and academic experts. Students then earned a digital badge that verifies the skills they developed as part of the Pitch 2 Panel experience.
Pitch 2 Panel Overview
Hear from the Panel and Students
It’s important for industry to support things like this because we give people access to not only the theoretical but also the practical experience that we can share with them.
VITO CHIODO, NATIONAL PROPERTY DIRECTOR, SCHIAVELLO
It was great to discover our young generation is not only thinking about the problems that our cities face today but also offering innovative solutions to address the sustainability issues affecting our cities.
LITON KAMRUZZAMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Hearing our future-creators share with passion and an amazing depth of knowledge how the cities of our near future will meet the needs of their residents in harmony with nature.
DANIEL BERRY, ZERO CARBON CHAMPION, CITY OF MONASH
I was blown away by the pitches. Hard to believe that these are 15/16-year-olds!
KAREN FREIDIN, NET ZERO ENGAGEMENT MANAGER, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Digital Badges
What is a digital badge?
A portable, verified, and secure representation of acquired knowledge, skills, and achievements.
What are digital badges used for?
A Digital Badge can be used on a person's website, social media pages and on profile pages on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn.
What are the benefits of digital badges?
An employer can view the skills, training, education, and experience that the badge holder acquired, accumulated, or demonstrated to earn the credential that the badge represents.
Team Gallery
-1.5°
ALEXIA, ANDREA, CHARLOTTE, DEVANSHI, & VARSHA
Team ‘-1.5°’ provided solutions for Autoville that gave citizens a voice and incorporated sustainability into local development. The team repurposed abandoned infrastructure, reduced economic vulnerability, reinforced clean energy use, and most importantly, protected the environment to ensure the health and wellbeing of its citizens.
Caterpillar & Co.
ABBEY, GIALOREN, & ZEINA
When initially tasked with redesigning a city in decline, Caterpillar Co's goal was to make citizens the centre of the incentives. They endeavoured to plan a city in which social & environmental sustainability work symbiotically through the implementation of heavy government involvement, green urban planning & resident-focused incentives, serving the land so it could serve the people.
Eco-Smart
ANKANKSHA, AMBER, SHRUTI, & SILENE
Eco-Smart focuses on building a city that profits human needs and also the environment. We are using sources of renewable energy, unique ways of sustainable practices and environmental- friendly materials and tools to reduce/ eliminate causes of climate change & global warming. As a result, it’s a positive mutual benefit for the world.
Environmental Avengers
BETSY, DANNY, MARY, SANDUNI, & TAEJUS
Environmental Avengers aim to improve the sustainability of all people in the city. Reducing coal usage, making public transport lines and improving residential areas are the main focus. Adding in solar panels and wind turbines will make this city more sustainable, to save the environment.
JJAZ
AARON, JAMIE, JAYDEN, & ZANE
JJAZ focused on a city’s longevity through a perfected mix of the three pillars: a city where environmental, economic, and social sustainability meet their full potential. Their solutions for Aquis’ highlighted economic and social sustainability to ensure it will endure to the very end.
MATES
ALISA, ELENI, MADI, SARAH, & TALIA
The industrialisation that caused severe environmental damage will lessen by aiming to phase out the oil refineries while supplying new employment opportunities. The Offshore oil rigs are now redeveloped into innovative and self-sustaining accommodation. The inclusion of these designs will prioritise the health and happiness of its citizens.
Marzzanas Enterprises
NIKITH, SITHYSA, ZAREEF, & ZARIN
Marzzanas Enterprises aims to make its city and the resources within it as accessible, eco-friendly, and renewable as possible whilst also providing a place where the citizens can lead peaceful, fun, and easy lives; and enjoy some showstopping scenery on a daily basis.
Pent Metro
JASON, JULIA, JULIE, THERESA, & TIM
Pent Metro will help this city to become more sustainable, modern and urbanised. Implementing more communal areas such as parks, sports facilities and beaches will make it convenient to socialise with everyone. Tourism increase and modernised technology will additionally increase the city's economic status.
Shroommates
CASSANDRA, ESTELLE, JONATHAN, ZOE, & VARSHA
Shroommates vision for the city of Autoville was to ensure its ability to maintain a balance between the three pillars of sustainable development. It is important to have a city that recognises human needs and the environment equally. Autoville endeavours to provide socially, economically and environmentally.
The Vincent Project
ARCHIE, ILIYA, LIAM, MITCHELL, & WESLEY
The Vincent Project aimed to make sustainability attainable. Their solutions for Rapida addressed climate issues, tackled food sustainability and created economic security. With these solutions, the city has made long term provisions for its citizens and can flourish for years to come.
