Previous Winners and STEMIE Finals
2025
The STEMIE National Final was held on 6 November 2025 at the SMART School UniSA Magill Campus.
This year the theme was “Farm Frenzy” focussing on the STEM skills in the agriculture industry.
STEMIE has been running for 10 years and over 3100 students have participated in the program over the last decade.
2024
THE STEMIE Final was held on 7 November 2024
This year the theme was STEM Speedway, focusing on the STEM skills in the motorsport industry. There were 9 schools from across South Australia and interstate competing for the title. Check out the video to see what “STEM Speedway” was all about.
After completing their chosen theme at school, the winning teams attended the STEMIE Final where the theme was linked to the Motorsport Industry. Students had to drive racing simulators and monitor changes to vital signs including heart rates and blood pressure. They had to race against the clock to design race tracks, create chemical fire extinguishers, calculate fuel consumption requirements, code electronic start up sequence lights and manage spatial reasoning tasks at the physical pitstop challenge.
2023
The STEMIE Final was held on 9 November 2023.
This year there were seven teams from across South Australia, Queensland and Victoria competing for the title. Check out the video to see what “STEMIEana Jones” was all about.
Schools had a choice of 5 previous themes to complete at school. The STEMIE Final theme was inspired by Indiana Jones, with students racing against the clock to write codes using information from archaeological digs, classifying animals and graphing toxicity levels, engineering boulder diverging roller coasters, mathematically calculating and then constructing pendulums of set length, and face their fears while they collect heart rate data for spreadsheet analysis.
2022
Flood! Fire! Famine! – Need information
2021
Carnival Capers
Students completed STEM challenges based around the science of show rides, incorporated Arduino technology to create a prototype device that improves attendance tracking, engineered their own side show style game within set parameters and worked out how their carnival activity can create a profit using mathematical justifications, including statistics and probability of winning side show games, and proceeds from show bag and ticket sales.
2020
Movie Magic
This theme was based around the STEM skills in the movie industry with each school developing a 3D printed company logo, dynamic spreadsheet model to demonstrate flexibility within movie budgets, engineering and prototyping a camera rigging device to navigate a set track within a specified time limit and creating an Arduino coded display for the launch of their fictional film company at the Regional Showcase.
2019
Mars Mission
This task was based around a proposal for a mission to Mars. Students costed the catering for the mission and justified nutritional requirements, they created astronaut selection criteria based on their investigations and research, engineered a Mars rover to navigate a set terrain track and coded an environmental control system to demonstrate how living conditions could be regulated.
2018
Project Dolores
Students developed and costed a fictional town plan for the development of a suburb in regional South Australia. They researched possible impact on local flora and fauna in the region and developed technology-based animal detection devices and investigated plant growth factors. They also engineered and strength tested bridge designs for access to the town.
2017
Metro Expo
Technology and engineering were used to improve an aspect of transport, either a new initiative or an improvement on an existing structure or system. The maths and science tasks were linked to event planning with the development of a mathematically justified sponsorship proposal to run a major event and science investigations into flame colours and research into fireworks.
Past STEMIE Winners
2023 STEMIEana Jones – Mt Gambier High School (SA).
2022 Revolutionary Resources – Mt Gambier High School (SA)
2021 Flood! Fire! Famine! – Salisbury East High School
2020 Carnival Capers – Grant High School
2019 Movie Magic – Whyalla High School
2018 Mars Mission – Marryatville High School
2017 Project Dolores – Edward John Eyre High School
2016 Metro Expo – Mount Gambier High School
