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If your interested in entering your project to this competition, then please talk to Mr Handley.

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The Challenge is a two-stage competition with Round One being an open anonymous call for submissions. Designs from each category will be shortlisted by a jury of industry experts, chaired by Craig Reucassel from the ABC's War on Waste.

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Young girl dedicated to saving the world's oceans

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The projects I am working on currently are a straw free initiative for local restaurants, bringing a line of products to replace single use plastic items that are easily accessible to everyone, local beach and nature clean-ups, as well as a few top secret...

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InspireMyKids - The World's Largest Community of Inspiration for Kids

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Kids can change the world. All they need is a little inspiration! Welcome to the world's largest collection of inspiring stories and videos for kids.

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The Kid Should See This: Educational videos for curious kids of all ages, a free resource for parents & teachers. Science, art, nature, animals, & more.

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Makes you wonder!

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Have you ever tasted an Arab taco?

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease

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Kid Inventions that made Kids Millions $$$

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Kid Inventions that made Kids Millions $$$

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10 Genius Kid Inventions That Made MILLIONS

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How to be an inventor

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William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill

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“There’s some sacrifice for science — just some popcorn falling on the floor.” 

Watch Simone Giertz's full TED Talk here: http://bit.ly/2t7CLtd

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A young person's school project becomes a reality, saving the world in the process.

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If you close your eyes and squint a bit, you could pretend this 600-metre-long tube is some kind of giant ocean snake. It's not, though. It's a device with a very special mission to catch the ocean's rubbish, or at least some of it. It's being towed out to a part of the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Garbage Patch. The water currents here happen to make lots of plastic rubbish drift together, and I mean lots. An area almost the size of Queensland.

Until now, it's been too difficult, too big, and too expensive to do much about it. That was until this guy came along, Boyan Slat. This snake thing was his idea, and it all started when he was still at school.

BOYAN SLAT, OCEAN CLEANUP: I realised, back in high school, there might be an alternative.

For a school project he designed a system of floating barriers that would be up to 100 kilometres long. They'd sit in the path of ocean currents, in a v-shape, to capture and funnel any floating plastic. Then these giant towers would suck it all up.

BOYAN SLAT, OCEAN CLEANUP: Instead of going after the plastics, you could simply wait for the plastic to come to you.

We've spent a lot of time telling you about plastic pollution on BTN.

JACK: Yup a recent study found that Aussies discard more than 9 billion pieces of plastic every year. Unlike paper or cardboard, plastic takes a really, really long time to break down.

MEG: I've come to realise that our precious marine life are getting killed by the so called innocent plastic bag.

But finding solutions hasn't been easy, and with so much plastic already in our oceans, killing our marine life, Boyan and his organisation, Ocean Cleanup, are hopeful they can tackle the problem one giant snake at a time.

BOYAN SLAT, OCEAN CLEANUP: This is pretty incredible. I mean something that we've been working towards for five years and just having seen it from the early conceptual sketches to now the first unit actually going through the Golden Gates (bridge) and heading to the garbage patch is pretty incredible.

It's aiming to trap some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists estimate are swirling around here while still letting marine life safely swim beneath it.

It's fitted with solar powered lights, cameras, sensors and satellite antennas. And the design will make it easy for boats to fish out the collected plastic every few months and transport it to dry land where it will be recycled.

Boyan is now 24, and despite the years of work that've gone in to this, he says the system will still get more tweaks in the coming months. The hope is to take it even further, by letting 60 of these giant snakes loose on the Pacific Ocean by 2020. That's a lot of hungry snakes who surely won't be going hungry. But hopefully they do at some point.

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Persistence pays off!

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13 years of dedicated drawing practise.

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1枚目は僕が12歳のときに描いたやつ。

2枚目は25歳になって描き直したやつ。 pic.twitter.com/8bUTjPk5gh

- Kouji Tajima 田島光二 (@Kouji_Tajima) August 6, 2018

To get better at something, you've got to practice. But when it comes to art, many folks assume that it's somehow immune to this axiom. If you've got innate talent, they think, you're going to be a great artist, regardless of how little you draw or paint. While talent definitely has something to do with it, honing the craft is what will take you from being ordinary to extraordinary. Concept artist Kouji Tajima recently pointed this out. An accomplished creative, he's worked on films including Blade Runner 2049 as well as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. He was also at one time a novice, just like everyone else.

In a recent tweet, Tajima shared just how far he has come by participating in the artistic tradition of redrawing old artwork. In this case, found a drawing he did when he was 12 years old and reimagined it with his expert skills. The side-by-side comparison is staggering. When Tajima was a kid, he drew a simple sketch in pencil. Now 13 years later, he worked digitally to visualize a character that is fully realized and has an incredible, otherworldly presence.

This isn't the first time that Tajima has shared his artistic progression. In 2014, he tweeted a smattering of his work from 2000, 2002, 2013, and 2014. It's an inspiring display of how, if you're dedicated and draw every day, you will improve.

If you want to start drawing but need some ideas, check out our comprehensive list of over 50 drawing ideas. You're sure to find something to sketch!

Concept artist Kouji Tajima shares powerful reminders that if you want to hone your craft, you have to make time for drawing practice.

昔と最近の絵の比較 pic.twitter.com/x5CrtzWZ4p

- Kouji Tajima 田島光二 (@Kouji_Tajima) November 14, 2014

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Artist Shows How Far He's Come After 13 Years of Dedicated Drawing Practice

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1枚目は僕が12歳のときに描いたやつ。 2枚目は25歳になって描き直したやつ。 pic.twitter.com/8bUTjPk5gh - Kouji Tajima 田島光二 (@Kouji_Tajima) August 6, 2018 To get better at something, you've got to practice. But when it comes to art, many folks assume that it's somehow immune to this axiom. If you've got innate talent, they think, you're going to be a great artist, regardless of how little you draw or paint.

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Obvious to you. Amazing to others. - by Derek Sivers

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Limited resources force creativity.

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When faced with the problem of no soccer field, this floating village needed to get creative!