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New Delhi, third June 2024: The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) introduced the winners of the Study Australia Entrepreneurship Challenge (SAEC) 2024 on the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi on 31 May 2024.

SAEC 2024 was a 2-week immersive and hybrid occasion bringing collectively a few of India’s brightest Grade 11 college students working in multidisciplinary groups to construct tech-enabled options to unravel real-world issues on one of many two SAEC themes of Global Net Zero Goals and Artificial Intelligence.

SAEC 2024 featured participation from 33 scholar groups from premier establishments throughout India. Each group created a three-minute video pitch, evaluated by a panel of SAEC award sponsors, to pick out 5 finalists. To additional help the scholars, every group was assigned a mentor from Australian academia and enterprise, guiding their video pitches in addition to networking alternatives for future tutorial {and professional} endeavours.

The 5 finalists introduced their concepts at an in-person occasion on Friday 31 May 2024 on the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi.

A group of 5 college students representing Manava Bharati India International School, New Delhi, received the primary prize and acquired a digital scholarship from Australia’s Blended Learning International (BLI), valued at AUD16,000 per scholar, to pursue a Diploma in Business. Austrade additionally introduced them with an iPad every.

This digital scholarship will allow college students to realize credit at BLI’s companion universities in Australia, facilitating their path in direction of a level in an Australian establishment. The successful group’s undertaking addressed themes associated to Global Net Zero Goals, with their query specializing in ‘How can they use expertise to preserve soil.’

A group of 5 college students representing Birla Open Minds International School, Hyderabad was introduced as the primary runners-up of SAEC 2024. Each scholar of the group acquired AUD 3,000 scholarship given by Study NSW in direction of their tutorial journey in New South Wales (NSW) and INR 10,000 reward card to every scholar of the group given by Australia’s Macquarie University to help of their entrepreneurial journey. Students may have until 30 April 2027 to use in an NSW training establishment to avail the scholarship.

A group of 5 college students representing Swaraj India Public School, Kanpur. was introduced because the second runners-up of SAEC 2024. Each scholar of the group acquired a money prize of AUD100 given by Australia’s MyCareerMatch.

Dr Monica Kennedy, Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner, Austrade, who was additionally part of the panel of judges mentioned: “At the S Dr Monica Kennedy, Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner, tudy Australia Entrepreneurial Challenge (SAEC) remaining gala occasion immediately, we had Incredible, engaged sensible shiny minds with fabulous concepts that can actually make a distinction to the way forward for each Australia and India. We had 5 Incredibly aggressive teams out of the preliminary group of 31 presenting on all issues to do with Global Net Zero Goals or Artificial Intelligence. The teams introduced nice concepts in a well-executed method. The pitches have been extremely polished with knowledgeable strategy to improvement of the enterprise mannequin and sharp communication of what their product will do! The judges had an unlimited quantity of problem discovering the winner as a result of all of the concepts and pitches have been spectacular!”

Austrade launched the primary version of SAEC in September 2022 the place high quality Indian undergraduate college students from high 18 companion Indian universities participated within the problem.

Australia stays a high vacation spot for Indian college students pursuing greater training overseas. As of December 2023, 163450 Indian college students have been enrolled in Australian Universities, which persistently rank excessive on the worldwide stage.

The quantity is a 29% enhance as in comparison with from December 2022.