Industry, government, and community organisations engaging and collaborating with teams of young professionals to develop, prototype, and launch real solutions. TechLauncher is an initiative which enables students at the Australian National University to develop and exhibit the research and professional skills required to use technology to bring great ideas to life and have a positive impact on our society.
Alongside technical competence, these skills include communication and stakeholder management, critical thinking, design, teamwork (including multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural and distributed teamwork), time management and a diverse range of other skills and competencies sought by employers in industry and government as well as by the research community.
Students develop these skills by working within a context that is much broader than the ANU. They work closely with industry professionals, technology experts, and entrepreneurs across the ACT and Australia to complete projects addressing complex problems in a variety of disciplines and industries, or to create their own startup enterprises. It is this context and breadth of involvement that provides our students with a deeply engaged and effective learning environment.
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TechLauncher is seeking high quality stakeholder organisations to work with our students. Get involved by proposing a new project. Find out how ยป
2026 Semester 1
Welcome to TechLauncher 2026! Teams work in 3-week sprints using Agile methodology, based in The Hive co-working space. See the Program Dates for the full schedule and the Current Students page for details.
See highlights from ANU Computing Students Showcase Real-World Innovation through TechLauncher 2025.