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30 July 2024

Undergraduate Business and Law students, join the 2024 undergraduate Bowater Business Challenge!

Attention undergraduate Business and Law students! Want to develop your problem-solving skills, employability and industry networks? Then the Deakin Bowater Business Challenge (DBBC) is for you!

Working in teams of four, students will research and develop a presentation on the future of a selected industry.

This year’s challenge is: ‘Develop an expansion strategy for Vision Radiology that maintains optimal patient care by fostering a consistent and professional work culture across locations’.

The Bowater Trust is kindly providing a $7500 prize pool.

Interested? Here’s how it works

Eligibility

The DBBC is open to all undergraduate Business and Law students enrolled for Trimester 2 2024. If you’re a postgraduate student and like the sound of this competition, stay tuned – there will be another Bowater Business Challenge for you in Trimester 1 2025.

You can enter as a team of up to four people or as an individual. If any groups don’t have the required four members, we’ll assign individual entrants to those teams.

Timeline

Remember: winning teams will score cash prizes and you might even impress a potential employer!

Applications and more information

Hurry – applications close on Thursday 8 August. Apply online now!

Need more info or have a question? Email [email protected] or visit the Deakin Bowater Business Challenge webpage.

Congratulations to the Trimester 1 winning teams

For more of an idea on what the Bowater Challenge is all about, here’s a summary and the winners of the Trimester 1 postgraduate challenge.

The theme was ‘Optimising Climate Comfort at Bounce Inc. locations to enhance customer satisfaction while achieving cost efficiencies and sustainability goals’. Student teams first attended a briefing session where the challenge was explained, followed by the online preliminary round.

Four teams qualified for the finals and were appointed an academic mentor to support them with their presentations and research. Students and staff attended a site visit hosted by Matt Holman, National Operations Manager of Bounce Inc, at the Blackburn Centre, where they had a Q&A session and enjoyed the fun features in the centre. At the finals, the four teams presented their ultimate solution in front of judges and the audience.

You can view a video of the event here.

Here are the winning teams:

1st prize: $3000
The Big Bounce Theory:
Dila Ravenna Theodora, Hai Yen Pham, Thuy Linh Nguyen, and Thi Thu Phuong Le
Academic Mentor: Dr Ruby Ma

2nd prize: $2000
Sustainability Analysts:
Harindu Weerasinghe, Jeevanshu Kishnani, Sanjay Subramanyan, Thanmay Mohana
Academic Mentor: Dr Ha Vu

3rd prize: $1500
Bouncing Ninjas:
Naman Singhania, Neel Soman, Hector Arenas, Abhiram Tilak Kosaraju
Academic Mentor: Dr Saikat Deb

4th prize: $1000
Business Jumpers:
Andy Ngo, Aleysa Shaeba John, Lily Benavides, Selva Vignesh Saravanan
Academic Mentor: Dr Eka Tan

With the challenge now in its 15th year, Deakin thanks the Bowater Trust for its continued support of our students. We also want to thank Bounce Inc for providing the challenge, our academic mentors, and the judges who had the difficult job of picking the winners. Congratulations to all our participating students!

You could be part of the next winning team, by signing up for the Bowater Challenge today!

 



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