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 as an individual or as a team!

Submit your 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 sit within one or more of our focus innovation domains:

  • Bionic mobility
  • Bionic senses
  • Brain-computer interfaces and neurobionic treatments
  • 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.

All applications are due by Monday, 23 September 2024.

Get Inspired: Past Student 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 thanks to MAIC Qld, through Australia’s inaugural Student Bionics Innovation Challenge delivered by Bionics Gamechangers Australia.

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?