Trailblazer Winners for 2007

Open Winner First - Dr Jun Chen (Science)
“Nanostructured Flexible Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Energy System.”

Open Winner Runner up – Mr Mitchell Byrne (Health & Behavioural Sciences)
“Medication Alliance - I have developed a Mental Health staff training program that enables staff to understand the individual reasons for a patients non-adherence to medication.”

Student Winner First – Mr Michael Jones & Mr Tony Larchez (Informatics)
“Go-with-the-flow - Every Drop Counts: this invention is a compact water saving device which can be easily fitted to a standard showerhead. It provides an easy way for user control over water usage, based on a volume limit”

Student Winner Runner Up – Ms Ava Simms (Science)
“The OzMUSLE model was developed in order to determine, on an event basis, how soil erosion varies within catchments (area up to 250 km2)”

Highly Commended (2007)

• Open – Prof. Aditya Ghose, Evan Morrison and Alexander Menzies (Informatics)
  “Rapid Model Discovery - the process of building IT systems relies significantly on (mainly diagrammatic) software models to describe system requirements or to specify system designs.”
• Open - A/Prof. Willy Susilo, Daniel Saffioti and Khin Than Win (Informatics)
  “iLearning: Niche Learning Tools using iPod”
• Student – Mr Michael Thomas (Science)
  “OzID - A new weapon in the fight against obesity, diabetes and heart disease: identifying the molecular structure of fats and oils faster, cheaper and more precisely!”
• Student – Miss Kori Nemme (Education)
  “SpiritChild: an intervention program for parents and caregivers of children under seven years of age”.

(From Left to Right): Alistair Smith (from Davies Collison Cave), Jun Chen, Michael Thomas , Alexander Menzies, A/Prof Willy Susilo, Mitch Byrne, Ava Sims, Tony Larchez, Evan Morrison, Michael Jones, Prof. Aditya Ghose, Mark Horsburgh (from Fisher Adams Kelly)

Trailblazer winners for 2006 were:

Award-winners Mark Gaykema (front row, second from left), Anass Attya (middle) and Dr Cholochat Rujikiatkamjorn (second from right) are pictured with the 2006 Trailblazer competition finalists

Trailblazer winners for 2005 were:

• $5000 Open winner- Miss Anna Henningham, Faculty of Science
  "The metabolic Archilles heel of GAS"
• $2000 Student winner- Mr Luke Scott, Faculty of Engineering
  "Vacuum membrane distillation"
• $3000 Open Runner-Up- Dr Willy Susilo, Faculty of Informatics
  "Secure USB Disc Access"
• $1000 Student Runner-Up- Mr Mark Havryliv, Faculty of Creative Arts
  "Audio controlled games"
• $500 Student Highly Commended- Mr Nuri Elbasha, Faculty of Engineering,
  "Enhancing the strength and ductility of high strength reinforced concrete beams"
• $500 Student Highly Commended- Mr Peter Kelly, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, "Homework generator"
• $1,000 Open Highly Commended- Dr Bridget Munro, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, "Stretching straining landing training"
• $ 1,000 Open Highly Commended- Mr Simon Meers, Faculty of Informatics, "Electro-Neural Vision System"

Pictured at the Trailblazers presentation (from left): Managers of Innovation and Commercial Development (Health, Education and Arts) Aapo Skorulis (left) and (Engineering, Science and Law) Dr Troy Coyle (right) with student recipients (from second left) Mark Havryliv, Luke Scott, Joonsana Baek (representing Willy Susilo), Peter Kelly, Anna Henningham, Simon Meers, Nuri Elbasha and Bridget Munro.

For further information on this event - please contact Rochelle Waren phone: x3915 or e-mail: rwaren@uow.edu.au