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Summary of key terms · the full terms of entry are the ones that apply

• Entry is paid. The entry fee for the 2027 season will be published before registrations open. You pay one amount per entry and we do not add fees at later stages.
• No payment is taken on this form. We invoice you or send a payment link after we receive your registration, and your entry is confirmed when the fee is paid.
• If we cancel the competition, or change it so that you can no longer take part, we refund the entry fee in full. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.
• Each entry competes in one category and one division. The details you give must be accurate, and you can ask us to correct them.
• You keep ownership of your project and its intellectual property. By entering, you allow us to show your project name, summary and approved images for the competition and festival.
• Every award is decided by judges against published criteria. No prize is decided by chance, and there are no random draws.
• School teams need a teacher mentor, and a parent or guardian must consent for every student under 18 before any stage. Our child safety commitment and the code of conduct apply to everyone taking part.
• Dates, venues and formats are indicative until confirmed.
• The full competition rules, including judging criteria, will be published on this site before entries close.

Privacy collection notice · Australian Privacy Principle 5

Who we are

TechFest Australia, Australian proprietary company (Pty Ltd), registration in progress, based in Victoria. Contact us about privacy at privacy@techfestaustralia.com.au.

What we collect

Everything you type into this form: your entry type, division and category, the team name, the project title, summary and stage, the support you would like, how you heard about us, and the contact details on Stage 03. For school teams that is the school’s name, suburb, state and postcode, the teacher mentor’s name, role, school email and phone, their confirmation that they hold a Working with Children Check, and each student’s first name, last name and year level. For individual and open-team entries it is the lead contact’s name, email and phone, the state and postcode you are based in, any university or TAFE, and the first and last name of each other team member with an optional email. We also record which consent boxes you ticked, including the optional photo and marketing ones. We do not ask for dates of birth, student email addresses or home addresses.

Anti-spam

The form carries one hidden field that must be left empty and records the moment the page opened. Both are used only to filter out automated submissions. The hidden field’s contents are never stored or sent on, and the organisers see only how long the form took to fill in.

Why

To process and manage your entry, contact you about the competition, invoice and receipt the entry fee, organise judging, mentoring and events, and keep young people safe.

If you do not provide it

No law requires you to give us these details, but without them we cannot process your entry.

Where it goes

When you launch, the form sends these details to our website host, which emails them to the organisers’ inbox and emails the lead contact a short confirmation holding only your reference and category. The organisers hold the full entry. We keep a short record of each accepted entry in our server logs so an entry is never lost if an email fails.

Who we share it with

Judges, mentors, and venue and hub partners, only as needed to run the competition. We do not sell personal information.

Payment

No payment details are collected here and this site never shows a card field. When the fee is published we send an invoice or a link to a payment provider’s own secure page. That provider receives the payer’s payment details; we receive only the payment reference and the amount. We will name the provider here before payments open.

Overseas

Our website host (Vercel) and our email provider (Resend) may store or process these details outside Australia, including in the United States. We are confirming the full list of countries with both providers and will publish it here before registrations open.

Access, correction, complaints

Our privacy policy explains how to access or correct your information and how to make a complaint, including to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Marketing

We only send newsletters or event news if you tick the separate marketing box below.