2025 NRMA Future of Transport Challenge – Winners
Stage 3 (Years 5–6): St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
This team tackled the challenge of EV charging in remote areas with a community-first mindset. Their solution? A network of roadside chargers powered by renewable energy generated from homeowners’ properties. It’s a clever way to bring sustainable transport to places that need it most.
Stage 3 winners from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Congratulations to the other Stage 3 finalists for their brilliant presentations:
One School Global – Albury Campus – Spike Safe
Spike Safe is a multi-faceted response to reduce wildlife deaths on roads including dense plantings, deterrent spikes that double as driver warning sensors and water management projects.
Wollongong Public School – GILL
GILL is a water powered car using hydrogen electrolysis, aiming to match and surpass existing range and safety standards.
Stage 4 (Years 7–8): Mount St Joseph Catholic College
Spot.ABLE is a social sustainability app designed to make life easier for people with disabilities. It helps users locate accessible parking and report misuse, promoting fairness and inclusion in everyday travel.
Stage 4 winners from Mount St Joseph Catholic College
A big congratulations to the other Stage 4 finalist:
Georges River College – Breeze Bike
Closed system wind powered e-bike; energy generated by an inbuilt wind turbine is stored in the bikes battery to enable effort free riding after 10 minutes pedalling.
Stage 5 (Years 9–10): Newcastle Grammar School
Little Loco reimagines old infrastructure for a new purpose. This team proposed a safe, cost-effective autonomous railway system using disused tracks in Newcastle. It’s a smart way to bring innovation to regional transport while keeping costs down.
Stage 5 winners from Newcastle Grammar School
Well done and congratulations to the other Stage 5 finalists:
Normanhurst Boys School – Sync Transportation
AI-powered timetabling that bridges the gap between buses, metro, and trains for seamless, time-saving commutes.
Richmond Centre of Excellence in Agriculture Education – The Sabatier Process Reactor
The Sabatier Process Reactor is the Carbon Neutral Hydrocarbon Fuel Source that people can locate and use within their homes to power electric vehicles.
Finalist teams pitched their innovative solutions to real-world transport problems to a panel of industry experts at the live finals event in 2025. The judges were: Victoria Doidge – NRMA Chief Membership Officer, Professor Scott Sleap – the STEM Enrichment Coordinator for the NSW Department of Education and Keira Chrystal – STEM Educator, Fizzics Education.
In 2025 we held a face to face finals event at Sydney Olympic Park - you can watch the finals event here:
2024 NRMA Future of Transport Challenge – Winners
Stage 3 Winners
Students from Year 6 from Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College won the Stage 3 NRMA Future of Transport Challenge with their project “Absorbothane”. This team put in extensive research for an energy absorbing material which is lightweight and fitted to the front of all vehicles to reduce crash damage to cars and therefore greatly reducing repair costs and time spent without a car.
Stage 3 winners from Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College
Congratulations to the other Stage 3 finalists for their brilliant presentations:
One School Global – Albury Campus with their project “Safe Car VR”, a VR simulator for Learner Drivers and Provisional drivers to give them additional hours of experience safely without being on the road. Thus keeping roads safer for all drivers.
Wahroonga Prep School with their project “AeroDrop”, utilizing drone technology to deliver much needed supplies to remote and rural areas, faster and more reliable than bringing supplies by road.
Stage 4 Winners
Students from Year 8 at North Sydney Boys High School were awarded the win for Stage 4 with their project “Motion AI”. Motion AI is a suite of supports that, when combined, allow traffic to flow with greater efficiency. It includes an AI supported device for self driving. This device has cloud connection to the traffic lights which has AI supported software to change lights to times to promote greater traffic flow. This is also linked to emergency vehicles so that under sirens they will have the right of way in all intersections.
Stage 4 winners from North Sydney Boys High School
A big congratulations to the other Stage 4 finalists:
Parramatta High School with their project “Nex Drive”. Nex Drive offers a package of safety support for vehicles including a breathalyzer, AI navigation and AI eye tracking. This ensures that only sober people are able to drive the vehicle which alone could reduce alcohol related crashes by 40%.
William Carey Christian School with their project “Road Repel”. Road Repel is a device installed by the side of the road that flashes and emits a high pitched should when detecting movement of animals near the side of the road. The animal will then scamper away from the road which will reduce crashes involving animals and will make roads safer for the driver and help protect our wildlife.
Stage 5 Winners
Taking home the Stage 5 winners prize were the students from Year 9 from St Mary Star of the Sea College with a clever product called Vale Carrion. Vale Carrion is an additive for thermoplastic paint that is used for road line marking. The additive is a repellent to all animals, keeping them away from roads. This results in a reduction of road kill – also reducing crashes on our roads as well as reducing harm to wildlife.
Stage 5 winners from St Mary Star of the Sea College
Well done and congratulations to the other Stage 5 finalists:
Cheltenham Girls’ High School with their project EcoVoyager. EcoVoyager addresses energy waste and air pollution on our public trains. Solar technology, streamlined trains and wind turbines to harness the wind flow over trains and turn it into renewable energy, trains will be greener and cleaner to run.
Newcastle Grammar School with their project XLR8. This project utilizes AI technology in vehicles for L and P platers to give real time feedback to the learner to support skill acquisition. With a lock down feature on phones it also reduces distractions.
Finalist teams pitched their innovative solutions to real-world transport problems to a panel of industry experts at the live finals event in 2024. The judges were: Victoria Doidge – NRMA Chief Membership Officer, Professor Scott Sleap – the STEM Enrichment Coordinator for the NSW Department of Education and Ben Newsome - Fizzics Education Founder and CEO.
In 2024 we held a face to face finals event at Sydney Olympic Park - you can watch the finals event here: