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The Winner of the 2024 Sustainability Award is …
The Winner of the 2024 Sustainability Award is ... EPSOM PRIMARY SCHOOL! PLUS a High Commendation for Ballarat High School for their team’s enthusiasm and valued support volunteering with the Sustainability Pit Crew.
VIDEO: HPV Secondary Highlights (2024)
Extreme heat, rain, carnage. The 24 Hour Secondary Trial at the Energy Breakthrough in Maryborough truly delivered a spectacle this year. So sit down, grab and snack, get comfortable, and enjoy the highlights of this year's 2024 Energy Breakthrough. Produced and filmed by the amazing Ty Hall.
2025 Energy Breakthrough dates: 19 – 23 Nov 2025
The Energy Breakthrough will return from Wednesday 19 November - Sunday 23 November 2025 in Maryborough, Victoria. Entries will open in March 2025!
2024 edition continues the tradition of innovation, excellence and overcoming epic challenges
2024 edition of the Energy Breakthrough continues the tradition of innovation, excellence and overcoming epic challenges
EB 2024 – Saturday Preview
DAY 4 SCHEDULE.: SATURDAY 23rd November - With all the judging behind us - now there's just a 24 hour Trial to be run and won!
VIDEO: HPV Primary Highlights (2024)
The HEAT was on, but our HPV Primary school teams raced tremendously throughout the 14 hour trail, presented by Transport Victoria. Watch the highlights video on YouTube now.
ABOUT THE ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH
Since 1991, the Energy Breakthrough has provided opportunities for students, teachers, parents and local industry to work together to design and construct a vehicle, a machine or innovation in technology that will represent an ‘energy breakthrough’.
The 2025 Energy Breakthrough event will be held from Wednesday 19th to Sunday 23rd of November 2025 in Maryborough, Victoria.
Entries will open in March 2025.
Teams of students can participate in Robotics, Junkyard Challenge, Pushcarts, Human Powered Vehicles (HPVs) and Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs).
The program is unique in that all teams must compete across three areas of assessment:
- Design and Construction,
- Display and Presentation and
- Trials.
The Energy Breakthrough is a joint initiative of the Country Education Partnership (CEP) and the Central Goldfields Shire Council (CGSC). Learn more about the Energy Breakthrough >
Tax deductible donations to support the Energy Breakthrough can now be made through the Country Education Partnership and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR).Find out more about making a donation to support the Energy Breakthrough >
We salute our Secondary School ‘Special Award’ Winners for 2024!
🏅 Best Display & Presentation: Damascus College
🏅 Best Design & Construction / Safety Award: Bendigo Senior SC
🏅 Best First Year School: Norwood International High School
We salute our Secondary School ‘Special Award’ Winners for 2024!
🏅 Best Display & Presentation: Damascus College
🏅 Best Design & Construction / Safety Award: Bendigo Senior SC
🏅 Best First Year School: Norwood International High School
As we close out a fine year, we salute our Primary School ‘Special Award’ Winners for 2024:
🏅 Best Display & Presentation: Laurimar Primary School
🏅 Best Design & Construction / Safety Award: Epsom Primary School
🏅 Bruce Reiffel Award for Best Small School: Avoca Primary School
🏅 Best First Year School: Lucas Primary School
🏅 Inclusive Team Award, sponsored by Enabled Designs: Beaconsfield Upper PS
As we close out a fine year, we salute our Primary School ‘Special Award’ Winners for 2024:
🏅 Best Display & Presentation: Laurimar Primary School
🏅 Best Design & Construction / Safety Award: Epsom Primary School
🏅 Bruce Reiffel Award for Best Small School: Avoca Primary School
🏅 Best First Year School: Lucas Primary School
🏅 Inclusive Team Award, sponsored by Enabled Designs: Beaconsfield Upper PS
Have you heard about Road to Zero?
Developed by the TAC in partnership with Melbourne Museum, Road to Zero is an award-winning, state-of-the-art Education Complex at Melbourne Museum.
Road to Zero offers free curriculum-linked programs for Year 9 and 10 Science and Health and PE, and VCE VM students.
Facilitated by knowledgeable road safety educators, excursions to Road to Zero comprise two parts – the Experience Space, an exploratory exhibition of 13 immersive experiences, and the purpose-built Learning Studio, where students undertake one of two curriculum-linked programs, including creating a public health campaign video, and tackling a virtual reality physics experiment.
To find out more and book your free 2025 excursion click:
https://www.roadtozero.vic.gov.au/
Have you heard about Road to Zero?
Developed by the TAC in partnership with Melbourne Museum, Road to Zero is an award-winning, state-of-the-art Education Complex at Melbourne Museum.
Road to Zero offers free curriculum-linked programs for Year 9 and 10 Science and Health and PE, and VCE VM students.
Facilitated by knowledgeable road safety educators, excursions to Road to Zero comprise two parts – the Experience Space, an exploratory exhibition of 13 immersive experiences, and the purpose-built Learning Studio, where students undertake one of two curriculum-linked programs, including creating a public health campaign video, and tackling a virtual reality physics experiment.
To find out more and book your free 2025 excursion click:
https://www.roadtozero.vic.gov.au/
A race like no other 🙌
The 2024 Energy Breakthrough Secondary School 24 Hour Trial.
Check out the full video on our YouTube!
#EB2024
A race like no other 🙌
The 2024 Energy Breakthrough Secondary School 24 Hour Trial.
Check out the full video on our YouTube!
#EB2024
Three-peat HPV title 🏆🏆🏆
@berwick.college Hare & Forbes take out the HPV Open category in an incredible display of engineering and speed 👏 #EB2024
Three-peat HPV title 🏆🏆🏆
@berwick.college Hare & Forbes take out the HPV Open category in an incredible display of engineering and speed 👏 #EB2024
Official Energy Breakthrough photos proudly shot by Ron Gale and co.
PROGRAM PARTNERS
The Energy Breakthrough is a joint initiative of the Country Education Partnership (CEP) and the Central Goldfields Shire Council (CGSC).
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
