Wantu a State finalist in the Australia Post Regional Innovation Pitchfest
A startup with a bold vision to create strong and resilient families worldwide through fun shared experiences has been selected as a Queensland finalist in the Australia Post Regional Pitchfest. Wantu founder and Fire Station 101 member Anne-Marie Walton will pitch...
Work with award winning programs, win prizes, and make a difference – GovHack returns to Fire Station 101 with Ipswich data
This July, Fire Station 101 is once again supporting the international GovHack event to connect technical and creative skills with open government data. Over three incredible days, we will create relationships, support entrepreneurs, deliver real social and economic...
Meet your Ipswich June 2017 RHoK Stars!
Do you want to help young people learn technology? Support entrepreneurship in women in regional areas? Protect Australia’s natural ecosystems? Deliver safe drinking water to people in Nicaragua? This June we have an incredible opportunity to make a real difference in...
Are you a social impact Change Maker? Come RHoK with us!
Calling all Ipswich Changemakers - if you are in an organisation that is making a difference, we want to help! Apply here: http://www.rhokaustralia.org/changemakers What’s RHoK? Random Hacks of Kindness, or RHoK, is a weekend event where we connect people who...
Digicon: Creating a Community Challenge Accelerator Program and protecting our natural environment
Can we use technology to solve local community challenges and create global opportunities for local entrepreneurs? This is the question that Ipswich City Council aims to answer with the introduction of the Community Challenge Accelerator Program. Ipswich City Council...
Big difference with open data at the Ipswich GovHack hackathon
You can make a big difference with big data. This is what a group of passionate Ipswich hackers realised over a weekend in July. Once a year, teams across Australia and New Zealand come together to see what difference they can make with available "open data". Open...
Ipswich innovation at Fire Station 101: Our first four months
It has been an incredible and fast-paced first four months since the launch of Fire Station 101. We set out to create a space in Ipswich for entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into reality, impact local and scale global, build community capacity and capability, and...
VR games studio Pillow Head Games wins by watching grass grow
Who would have thought that a game about watching grass grow would get you a free ticket to the annual E3 conference in California? As of a few weeks ago, the answer to that question would be Fire Station 101 member and Pillowhead Games Director Braycen Jackwitz....
