You can send your competition entries by post, email or online.

Before sending, make sure you have submitted your competition entries using our online form.

Label your entries

Clearly label all entries with:

  • student name
  • year level
  • school name.

If you do not have consent for a student's work to be used for promotion by us, make sure their photographs, recordings or works are clearly labelled as 'not approved for departmental use'.

Post

When you submit your competition entries you will receive an email confirming your entry details.

Print this email, and attach it to your competition entry.

Send your entries to:

Schools Science Competition
Hermitage Research Facility
604 Yangan Road
Warwick Qld 4370

Returning entries

Please specify on the competition entry submission form if you would like your entries returned:

  • collected at the end of the Awards Day and Agricultural Science Expo
  • returned by post after the Awards Day.

We may specifically ask for some science and art entries to be kept on display at the Hermitage Research Facility.

Any entries that are not required to be sent back to schools may also be placed on display.

Email

When you submit your competition entries you will receive an email confirming your entry details.

Forward this email and your entries to the Hermitage competition email address.

There is a combined 50MB limit on attached submissions. If your entries exceed this limit, save the files to a USB stick and send by post.

Online

Electronic entries can be saved in an online platform such as Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. When you submit your competition entries you can include a link to the shared folder and include the password or other login requirements.

Contact us if you have questions about submitting entries using this option.

Contact us

Email HermitageCompetition@dpi.qld.gov.au

Call 13 25 23

Join our Facebook group for competition updates.

Last updated: 14 Jul 2026