Bray Park State High School students Hannah Lowe and Pia Flynn have turned their interest in technology into Query, an artificial intelligence learning concept that has earned recognition in Moreton Bay’s Mayor’s Telstra Innovation Awards.
The Year 9 students developed Query with critical thinking and learning at its core, combining AI chat functionality with accessibility and gamification features. Their work earned them the Emerging Entrepreneur Award at the 2026 competition, announced in June.
Their project also adds to a growing list of technology ideas to emerge from Bray Park students in recent years.
Hannah and Pia’s Idea for AI Learning
Query was presented as an AI assistant app designed to encourage critical thinking and learning. City of Moreton Bay, which runs the awards with Telstra, said the concept incorporates chat functionality, gamification and accessibility features.
Hannah and Pia developed the project as Year 9 students and took it through the competition alongside young innovators from schools across Moreton Bay. The program asks students in Years 9 to 12 to develop a technology-based solution to a real-world problem, with shortlisted entrants receiving mentoring before pitching their ideas to a judging panel.
Education was only one area tackled by students in this year’s competition, with other projects addressing water conservation, food waste and renewable energy. More than $12,000 in prizes and development opportunities were awarded across the 2026 program.
Query ultimately took out the Emerging Entrepreneur Award. There has been no subsequent public announcement indicating whether the project has progressed to classroom trials or a wider release.
It’s Not Bray Park’s First Success
Hannah and Pia are following a particularly successful group of Bray Park entrants from two years earlier, when students from the school collected first place, second place and the Emerging Entrepreneur Award in the 2024 competition.
Mitchell, An and Louise won that year with LAM, an AI-based live-chat concept aimed at providing teenage boys with a place to express themselves before directing them towards more specialised support. Another Bray Park team, Tyler, Corey and Omar, finished second with Project BrayGreen, which combined recycling bins with an app and rewards system.
The school’s third recognition that year went to Makayla, who received the Emerging Entrepreneur Award for Safe in Space, an idea centred on collecting and repurposing space debris.
Query’s award this year gives Bray Park another result in a competition where its students have already made a strong impression.
A Wider Focus on Innovation at Bray Park
Technology and problem-solving also feature elsewhere in the school’s curriculum. Bray Innovate, its excellence program for Years 7 to 9, brings together science, design and technology, art and mathematics, with students working on projects involving areas such as sustainability, digital technology and engineering.
There is no publicly available information confirming that Hannah or Pia are part of Bray Innovate, so the program is separate from their Query achievement.
For Hannah and Pia, Query has taken an idea about AI and learning from Bray Park to a wider Moreton Bay stage. What happens to the project next has not been publicly announced, but its Emerging Entrepreneur Award has already put another pair of Bray Park students among the region’s recognised young innovators.
Published 8-September-2026
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