2025 Event Manual now available!
Our 2025 Event Manual provides our Team Managers with all the essential details and links you need to prepare to arrive onsite for this year’s Energy Breakthrough. Firstly, congratulations for making it this far!
FREE Game Day Nutrition Webinar for EB Schools on Tuesday 28th Oct
The Energy Breakthrough team have partnered with the legends at Game Day Nutrition to prepare some sports nutrition information and a webinar to help schools prepare for the Energy Breakthrough. The FREE Webinar will be on Tuesday October 28th between 4pm - 5pm.
Requests for pit, camp site and cool room requests – now open until Sep 19
Pit and Camping requests are now open for this year's Energy Breakthrough. Team Managers: please be sure to get your requests in via the MyEB Online Registration System by 5pm on Friday September 19 to help the EB team complete the schedules. This is the final day of Term 3 in Victoria.
2025 Volunteer Applications now open!
Applications to join our 2025 Volunteer team are now open! Volunteering with us at Energy Breakthrough is a fantastic way of making a valuable contribution and real difference in your community. Our volunteer team is proudly supported by the Community Bank of Avoca, Maryborough and St Arnaud. Check out the roles available online now.
Community Group Expressions of Interest now open for toilets and showers cleaning, ‘sustainability pit crew’, track set-up and pack-up and waste collectionCommunity Group Expressions of Interest now open for toilets and showers cleaning, ‘sustainability pit crew’, track set-up and pack-up and waste collection
Community Group Expressions of Interest now open for toilets and showers cleaning, ‘sustainability pit crew’, track set-up and pack-up and waste collection
Energy Breakthrough has four great opportunities for community groups to get involved and fund raise across toilets and showers cleaning, 'sustainability pit crew', track set-up and pack-up and waste collection. Visit the Central Goldfields Shire Council website for all of the specification information and to apply!
Local Maryborough community share their ideas at recent Energy Breakthrough Kitchen Table Conversation
A very well attended Energy Breakthrough Kitchen Table Conversation event was recently held at the Maryborough Community Hub. On behalf of the Thank you to those that turned up and contributed with their thoughts and ideas for the future of Energy Breakthrough in Maryborough. This was an important event, bringing community members together sharing ideas and having their voices heard.
Calling all explorers: Theme for Sphero Global Challenge announced!
Calling all explorers! Gather your team, pack your backpack, and join the 6th season of the ultimate STEM Competition: “Sphero Global Challenge: Outdoor Adventures" at the Energy Breakthrough. This year, participants will embark on a national park-themed coding and robotics journey to spark curiosity, teamwork, and creativity through hands-on learning under the theme on "Outdoor Adventures". The Challenges for this year look super exciting and with this early notification teams will have plenty of time to prepare. Full details on the EB website now!
Highview College set to take on hybrids for the first time
For the first time, eager staff and students at Highview College will be combining pedal power with an electric motor to create a hybrid powered vehicle for this year’s Energy Breakthrough. This story first appeared in the Maryborough Advertiser and was written by Niamh Sutton, reproduced with permission.
Position Vacant: Pushcart Coordinator
We are on the hunt for a new Pushcart Coordinator to help us here at the Energy Breakthrough! Is it you? Our awesome outgoing Pushcart Coordinator - Rob Higgins - is continuing as our Sphero Global Challenge Robotics Coordinator, but handing over the reins of the Pushcart Coordination. The Pushcart Coordinator leads the Pushcart category by guiding a team of volunteer judges and ensuring that students, teachers and parents have a great experience. Download the Position Description for all of the details.
Local Maryborough community invited to share their ideas for Energy Breakthrough
An informal gathering for members of the Maryborough community will be held on Monday 23 June at 6pm at the Maryborough Community Hub and will be hosted by Energy Breakthrough organisers and the Maryborough Volunteer Resource Group.