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School of Ideas Workshop Starts
The School of Ideas competition workshop started yesterday at The Edge. As the winners of the competition, students had a day of practicing their presentation techniques – often in different and unusual ways. One technique was the elevator pitch. The … Continue reading
Tagged schoolofideas
Help Seeker
What is it? The Help Seeker is a boat that helps people in flood waters. It is operated by a well-trained person. It has rescue, clean up and high technology features. What does it do? The Help Seeker rescues people … Continue reading
Tagged amphibious, arms, boat, clean up, debris, flood, Infrastructure, radar, renewable energy, rescue, robot, rubbish, schoolofideas, technology
Scraper Sucker
This machine is called a Scraper Sucker. It is a remote controlled vehicle that scrapes up mud from the floor and sucks it into a bag. I thought of this idea because I know it would be horrible to have … Continue reading
Tagged clean up, flood, machine, mud, remote control, schoolofideas, technology, water
Flood water sucker 3000
My idea is the Flood Water Sucker 3000. It can suck up flood water and turn it into fresh drinking water. It has a filter in the machine that makes the water fresh. The water gets sucked up through the … Continue reading
Ikeas Ark
Description of ideas: The image we have gone with is called Ikeas Ark because In 100 years time there will be a flood. This Ikeas Ark will be very useful as it will not only save people’s lives, pets and … Continue reading
Tardis House
Picture 1: House on the Ground This image is of a normal house on the bank of the Brisbane River in 100 years time, when anything is possible. If this house had no technological advances then it would almost certainly … Continue reading
Tagged floating, future, housing, legs, residential, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, technology, teleport
Floaty House
This is a house surrounded by as floaty (made of indestructible material) that inflates when you hit a button. This floaty goes around the perimeter of the house. When the water comes, instead of the water flooding everything, the house … Continue reading
Tagged anchoring, construction, float, floaty, flood, house, materials, motor, residential, resilienthomes, schoolofideas
Underground high-rise buildings
The picture drawn shows the solution for Brisbane flooding in 100 years. The buildings in 100 years will be underground high-rise buildings of apartments and work buildings. The buildings are not drawn to scale so there would be several more … Continue reading
Hover House
Hover Houses are hovering platforms that can change levels according to the height of the flood. It also has waterproof escalators creating a pathway connecting to the ground. This invention raises the houses above the water level to prevent destruction … Continue reading
Treehouse Inc.
Our idea is tree houses. Everyone would live in their regular houses, but in the event of a flood the people would move into a giant tree planted in their backyard which is quite tall. In the tree, there would … Continue reading
Tagged evacuation, flood, personal, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, storage valuables, tarp, tree, tree house