About the Award
The Wong Swee Soon Student Excellence Award recognises student achievements in the Industry Experience Studio Project, a capstone program that connects academic learning with real-world industry challenges. This award honours students who demonstrate outstanding technical capability, creativity, and professionalism in delivering innovative solutions for our local small to medium business clients.
Since 2019, the Wong Swee Soon Student Excellence Award has been presented twice a year by the Monash Faculty of IT’s Industry Experience Studio Projects team. Recipients receive a certificate and a monetary prize of up to $1,000 to acknowledge their commitment to delivering innovative, high-quality, real-world IT projects.
About Dr. Chek Yoon Wong
The award is named after the father of Dr. Chek Yoon Wong, a visionary educator and leader whose contributions shaped the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Dr Wong was deeply committed to fostering excellence and collaboration, and his work continues to inspire generations of students and academics. His legacy lives on through initiatives that empower students to apply their knowledge in meaningful ways, preparing them for dynamic careers in technology and beyond.
Significance of the Industry Experience Studio Project
The Industry Experience Studio Project is a key component to Monash IT Work-integrated Learning portfolio. It provides students with the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams, engage with real clients, and develop solutions that address contemporary business and societal needs. Through this program, students gain practical experience, refine their professional skills, and make a tangible impact on industry.
Selection Criteria
Recipients of the Wong Swee Soon Student Excellence Award are selected based on:
- Innovation and Creativity – Delivering solutions that demonstrate originality and forward-thinking.
- Technical Excellence – Applying advanced technical skills to produce high-quality outcomes.
- Professionalism and Collaboration – Working effectively in teams and engaging with local business owners in a professional manner.
- Impact and Value – Creating solutions that provide measurable benefits to stakeholders.
Award Recipients to Date
| Project Intake | Winning Student Team | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | Team “S.A.A.P“ Patrick Andrew Sinicki Tsun Ming Law Austin Quereshi Saachi Rajpal | Project: Compliance Pro Portal Team S.A.A.P is proud to create a web system which connects internal auditors from Compliance Pro with clients/customers who require an ISO27001 certification and ongoing auditing services. Clients can select a range of monthly membership plans which grants them access to upload evidence attached to a specific ISO27001 standard, to which a registered auditor will assess the evidence and submit an evaluation available to the client. Staff of Compliance Pro will have access to a comprehensive dashboard which is used to oversee all functionalities, manage all users, and analyse system and business performance. |
| November 2025 | Team “RAVVV Pty Ltd” Victoria Lay Ramin Fuad Viet Quoc Tran Angus Scott MacDonald Vuk Todorovic | Project: StatRoster Dr. Anu Ganugapati is a practising doctor and the founder of StatDoctor, a platform connecting locum (casual) doctors with smaller hospitals that are in need of doctors. Our project was to build an online rostering system that the hospitals could eventually adopt as their primary rostering system. We built our rostering system with the aim of making it easy to use as the primary users will be older non-technical HR staff. The aim for the future is for StatRoster to integrate with the already functioning StatDoctor application. |
| November 2025 | Team “OHW” Jasmine Subroto Siddarth Kapoor Qichong Chen Jia Yue Tang Jonathan Jordan Leung | Projcet: Monash Paramedicine Placement System The Department of Paramedicine at Monash University works closely with the Paramedic Practitioner program, a collaborative initiative between the university and Ambulance Victoria to upskill experienced paramedic students into Advanced Practice Paramedics. Our placement system has been designed to eliminate the burden of an almost entirely manual student placement process and is a centralised platform for administrators from Monash and Ambulance Victoria to coordinate placements by streamlining offers, approvals and tracking. (This project earned an honourable mention as a notable runner-up for the award) |
| June 2025 | Team “The Tech Titans” Kathleen Marilyn Halim Ian Hou Ren Chan Andy Nguyen Callum Paul van der Meulen Jiahui Yin Hanwen Zhang | Project: My Fit Body WebApp My Fit Body is a personal fitness service founded by Julie Lang, a health and fitness coach based in Melbourne, Australia. Julie works closely with clients to help them track their physical changes over time and stay motivated on their health journey. Her approach blends personal coaching with technology, aiming to provide a smarter and more visual way to understand body transformation. Our team is developing a web application that allows My Fit Body clients to easily log, monitor, and track their body measurements over time. The platform allows users to record their measurements manually or through a semi-automated photo tool, giving them clear visual feedback on their fitness progress. The system also includes motivational features, such as progress charts, custom goals set by the coach, and celebratory messages when clients hit milestones. |
| June 2025 | Team “Rapid Response” Ama Ambalangodage Zamin Abbas Nasser Weixiang Qian Jeremiah Saemo Yang Sun | Projcet: Community Paramedicine Needs Assessment Tool (CPNAT) Welcome to the Community Paramedicine Needs Assessment Tool (CPNAT). This system helps community paramedics, healthcare professionals, and community leaders conduct structured health needs assessments and design targeted paramedicine programs. The CPNAT platform provides a clear framework for assessing community health and social needs. It includes data collection and analysis tools for paramedics in the field. It also offers a collaborative space for designing and evaluating paramedicine programs. Additionally, CPNAT features an offline mode for low-connectivity areas. It provides exportable reports and visual data summaries to support informed decision-making. The ultimate goal is to help paramedics identify gaps, strengths, and actionable interventions within the communities they serve. |
| June 2025 | Team “Swift Tech” Keandre Dharivija Ngoc Han Luu Tengyi Niu Yinquan Tang Emily Sin Chaudry Sheraz Ali | Project: Lifestyle Protection CRM Kam, the owner of Lifestyle Protection, leads an advisory company that acts as the middleman between clients and insurance providers. His goal is to support clients who want insurance but may not be sure which option best suits their personal situation – whether it’s health, family, or finances. Partnered with 90% of Australia’s retail insurers, Kam and his advisers provide free consultations to help clients make confident and informed decisions. All it takes is a quick chat with Kam, and his team will take care of the rest. To support this service, we developed a custom CRM system to streamline business operations, enhance data organisation and improve the overall user experience for admins, staff, and clients. Designed to support daily business processes. This system makes every day processes more intuitive and efficient, helping users stay organised and responsive so that Lifestyle Protection clients can feel confident and have one less thing to worry about. |
| November 2024 | Team “CLANK IT” Laurentius Hartojo Alaska Frances O’Leary Caleb Teah Nikolas Zafiropoulos Xiao Zuo | Projcet: LucidWorks Customer Management System Founded by Thuy Mai, LucidWorks is a Melbourne-based company specialising in high-quality, 100% organic soy candles and accessories, including crystals and candle care products. The business has grown significantly, especially in the wholesale market, but faces challenges in managing customer data efficiently. Currently, wholesale leads are tracked across multiple platforms like Zoho and Shopify, leading to disorganisation and missed opportunities. A unified system for managing leads, orders, and communication is now critical for their continued growth. The CLANK IT CRM system was created to consolidate LucidWorks’ customer data and communications into one interface. Unlike traditional CRMs, it allows data integration from any source, not just Zoho and Shopify. Features include customer and communication tracking, a visual business dashboard, follow-up reminders, and manual order management. This solution will support LucidWorks’ current needs and scales with future business growth. |
| November 2024 | Team “TechEdge Solutions” Zekun Chen Charlotte Lily Cuthbert Thomas Liam Quill Post Aakhyaan Sitoula Lenie Tan | Project: Monash Paramedicine Exams System The Monash University Paramedicine Assessment Portal (MUPAP) is a digital marking system designed to streamline the practical examination process at Monash Paramedicine. To date, the department has had to print up to 6,000 paper marking sheets every semester to accommodate the delivery mode of these assessments, where students are evaluated on their ability to respond in simulated emergency scenarios. MUPAP replaces these paper-based marking sheets with a customisable digital interface, giving teaching staff and students access to an electronic version of the marking sheets both for use in final assessments and for practice purposes. This transition is intended to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and help the department better align themselves with modern digital practices. |
| June 2024 | Team “Decimal 6” NISHANT ABHISHEK JASON CHRISTOPHER KRISTIN DO YILUN PENG QUAN DANH TRAN | Project summary not released as requested |
| June 2024 | Team “Pisces” CHUNHUI DONG ISABELLA IMMACULATE TUDISCA PATRICK XIAO YONGFENG YANG YOU QUAN TAN | Project: Shifts and Rosters Management System for ClockWork Managing a coffee shop’s staff should be smooth and easy. We have created an exciting application that empowers both the manager and their staff: the manager can allocate shifts with a tap, ensuring the shop is always fully staffed and ready to take on the coffee rush; baristas can log in to their accounts anytime to see their past, present and future shifts in one convenient place. No more confusion about when they’re next on the roster! They can also track hours worked. This system is the perfect blend of functionality and ease-of-use, ensuring a smooth workflow for managers and staff. No more spreadsheets but a system that’s efficient and easy to use. |
| November 2023 | Team “LightCatch3rs” ANNABELLE JOSEPHINE ARTON-POWELL QUOC HUY HAN YIFAN HE AMANDA TU AN TRUONG | Projcet: ContrastA ContrastA is an information management system that has been designed specifically for the business needs and specifications of Next.Contrast. It has streamlined the data entry and documentation generation process into one centralised platform, for storing information. Employees can closely manage and track projects, and products can be monitored and allocated to projects accordingly. |
| November 2023 | Team “KAAAE IT Solutions” MING YIN CHAN LIANQI REN ANISH KAPSE KAYLA MARGARET BENNETT SKAFTE EDWIN YU | Project: MYPHYSIO Website We designed the cutting-edge MYPHYSIO website, the go-to resource for effective administration of a physiotherapy practice. The MYPHYSIO website serves as evidence of our dedication to quality. We have helped to make MYPHYSIO an even more vibrant and forward-thinking workplace by seamlessly integrating training programmes, multimedia materials, and an easy-to-use calendar system. |
| June 2023 | Team “KHAMY” YANGUANG CHEN RUOXUAN FU JER SHYUAN LIN KENDA MING HORNG WAN HAOYU CHEN | Projcet: Nature’s Path Website & Booking Nature’s Path is a local business based in Carnegie, Melbourne and offers a wide variety of Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat conditions in holistic way. KHAMY, the team, developed an elegant system for the business to automate consultation appointment booking sessions while showcasing the services and business information |
| June 2023 | Team “PIXEL TECH” ROUNAK AGARWAL YUTONG CHEN SAMARA D’CRUZ DAVID LLEWELLYN MORRISSEY ZHONGXIN YAO | Project: MY DANCE CARD The goal of the website My Dance Card is to create a senior dance group directory that provides good connections between seniors and dance groups and provide a convenient and enjoyable experience while they search for local dance groups. The website organises dance groups by state and allows users to subscribe to specific dance groups of interest to them, ensuring they stay up to date with any new posts. The overall experience will be streamlined and enjoyable, with considerations made for seniors regarding the sizing of elements on the page. This provides dance groups with the opportunity to increase their reach and associate with seniors through an interactive website. We are excited to bring this project to fruition and look forward to serving users within Australia as well as worldwide. |
| November 2022 | Team “Horizon” THOMAS MINH NGUYEN JUNJIE CHEN GIA HUY TRAN BRIDGET LILY LANSELL BERTRAND REN – CHONG WEE | Project: HQ Alterations HQ Alterations is a humble tailoring establishment located in the heart of little Collins Street, providing quality alteration services for every garment imaginable. But the business lacked an online website and thus it struggled to increase its renown in Victoria. That is where our team came in. To help this business acquire the fame their services deserve. The purpose of our project was to develop this missing digital presence. Our solution would be in the form of an aesthetically fitting yet adequately informative website. The platform not only serves to provide key information about the business, their services and working hours, but also possesses functionalities for clients to redeem special discounts and admin staff to log-in and edit the website’s content at a moment’s notice. |
| November 2022 | Team 32 EDWARD RHYS ASKEY DARREN SACKS SOMAYYA BASHEER ZEYU GUO HANWEN YANG | Project: Luminance Creations What good is change when you’ve always done things the same way? This was the core question behind Team 32’s project with Luminance Creations, a makeup and hairstyling business which caters to customers from individuals in the community to those in the entertainment industry. With many clients, jobs and invoices to keep track of, the owner was finding it difficult to cope with her current way of doing things—pages and pages of Excel spreadsheets and scattered notes. She wanted to try a change in her way of doing things. We discussed with her and set out the main project aim: bring together all the important information and processes of the business and give Luminance Creations a fresh new website to brand itself. This includes having a website for her to do all her admin work, such as filling out job details and sending out invoices (no more spreadsheets!) as well as having a dashboard, so she has all her tasks and crucial details summarised. The project also comprises another site for customers to see all the amazing services she had to offer, and they can submit an inquiry for any questions. So, is change any good when she’s always done things the same way? If you’re curious, take a peek and judge for yourself. |
| November 2022 | Team “10th Planet Development” YU HUA CHRISTIAN ANTHONY PELUSI QUDRAT RAZI YING XIN TEOH QIWEN DUN | Projcet: Property Manual CMS Mono Apartments, founded in 2015, is an accommodation business located in Melbourne, which offers both short- and long-term accommodation solutions. They manage units in the CBD and outer suburbs and offer their services through the Airbnb online marketplace. Staff members at Mono Apartments have found that they are spending excessive amounts of time attending to general enquiries made by tenants regarding various amenities in their accommodation. To reduce this time, Mono Apartments is looking to implement a digital manual system for tenants during their stay, offering property specific information related to amenities. Tenants will now be able to seamlessly access information regarding their property, wi-fi details and various household appliances in an easy-to-use online system. Our content management system for property manuals saves time for staff members and serves as a useful tool for tenants to navigate their stay with Mono Apartments. |
| November 2022 | Team “fiftyToo” HANG HU AKSHIT JAIN FANGZHE NING KWOK YUNG THAM TINA YU | Project: Palgong Web Managment Originating from Korea, Palgong Tea serves authentic Korean tea, brewed at the ideal temperature of 80 degrees. With stores across South Korea, Canada and the USA, our client Derek has opened the first franchise here in Melbourne, Australia and wants to establish his presence online. We delivered to him an all-in-one website that not only allows customers to explore the menu and brand but also provides relevant information for those looking to get involved with the Palgong family. Furthermore, to ease internal store processes, we also delivered a staff portal which acts as a content management system to manipulate the client facing website and to store/review enquiries coming in from the main company site. |
| June 2022 | Team “Kathware” I GEDE CARLO KARUNA SANJEVAMAHUTAMA ZHI WEI SHAWN THAM LIN XI YANG YU MICHAEL ZARITSKI | Project summary not released as requested |
| June 2022 | Team “MachLe” GAVIN PERERA BILL OWEN PRANOTO ZIYUAN ZHAI WANGJIE HE BENJAMIN RICHARD TEGONI | Project: Alfred Hospital TARA Louise Fuller is a Clinical lead for the Lung Transplant team at the Alfred Hospital. She works with patients who have busy schedules and, on top of this, patients, post treatment, are required to take sometimes up to 20 different medications daily for the rest of their lives. Project TARA intends to help patients stay on top of their daily medication environments, with a daily checklist system to help patients. Along side this the easy to system includes other features to help maintain their medication requirements with sms reminders and a weekly view. The system also connects Doctors and Patients through an appointments system. |
| November 2021 | Team “Weztech/Monash” ELIJAH DRUE DENNIS WEIMENG DING SEBASTIAN ANDREW PEART DANIEL MING WEI CHAI WANGLIN SONG | Project: Weztech Weztech is a family owned guitar and amplifier servicing shop established in late 2016 by owner Wesley Zagorc. The business is primarily focused on providing customers with quality guitar setups, modifications, repairs and related electronics inspections/repairs. Previously, Weztech had no IT based solution to manage their business information. Our fundamental goal was to build them an administration system that is specific to their needs and streamlines their daily workflow. The final product achieves this through autocomplete functions and intuitive purpose built design. Additionally, it includes inventory management and automatically generated statistics to help inform business decisions. |
| November 2021 | Team 68 MARTIN LI YILING LU JASON LEONARDO YONATHAN WILBERT SANTOSA | Project: Little Feet Music Little Feet Music is a cool, creative, fun, educational music, movement and entertainment class for kids of all ages, especially babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Little Feet Music focuses on helping carers enrol their children into weekly or casual classes. The project will help automate business processes, including a timetable and enrolment system for Little Feet Music customers. |
| June 2021 | Team 107 Yujie Hu Melanie Jacqui Linden Luke William St John Yi-An Ko | Project: Cookaborough Cookaborough is a ready-made meal business with a current website providing their cooks with an easy-to-use platform designed to power their cooks under a batch model for efficient, effective and profitable way to do business. Currently, customers of the cooks are required to place their orders through their website and Cookaborough wanted to provide a more convenient way for their customers to place orders. We have developed an Android and Apple mobile application allowing customers to place orders conveniently and efficiently on their phones and tablets. Through our application users can find cooks in their area, follow cooks, view their menu’s, and order their meals. |
| June 2021 | Team “Techcon” Dongzhi Miao Muhammad Faiz Bin Hashim Eddie Duy Huynh Kiarash Lahouti | Project: Mescon The team has developed a centralised Knowledge Base System for Mescon in order to keep the organisations internal systems and documents organised. Mescon is a local systems integration company specializing in automating production and manufacturing organisations in an effort to transition these organisations into Industry 4.0. Due to the nature of their work, Mescon consistently produces an array of confidential and highly detailed documents and articles. This new system has been designed and created by the team to help organise these documents whilst providing quick and easy access for all internal users within the organisation. |
| June 2021 | Team “The great 127” Chaudhary Hamza Ayaz OLADELE C FASHOGBON Bao Dai Tran Xi Wang | Project: rankONE Our client rankONE, who specialises in restaurant marketing, had outgrown its largely manual process for tracking clients and future prospects. Our team has built a custom-made CRM that will integrate numerous google documents into an integrated database and provide a user-friendly front to manage the day-to-day operations of the business. |
| November 2020 | Team “SEMM” ELLIE MAHALIA TRAILL JOSHUA NGUYEN WEI LIU YAN LI | Project: SEMM (Monash SPAHC) SEMM is an online system to help Monash’s School of Primary and Allied Health Care manage their higher degree research students. It extracts information from files, sends tailored emails, collates student information and more. |
| November 2020 | Team 38 BERNARD PO YIN CHUI JACK LEE KELLY RASHMIKA RATNAYAKE RATNAYAKE MUDIYANSELAGE YANG LI | Project: Rentbuy Rentbay is a website backed by the concept of the sharing economy that enables customers to “Rent Anything, Anywhere, Anytime”, and hope to create a community of Renters and Owners, giving customers the ability to find new life in under utilised assets. |
| February 2020 | Team “GIGABYTE” BRENDAN JOSEPH RIBAUX CAN LI KHANGLER LIM YANG CAO | Project: Allied Health Placement ALMEN reduces the time-consuming task of matching students to placements through resources such as Google Maps and Excel files, by providing a filterable database that matches eligible students with placements based on stated requirements. |
| February 2020 | Team “SEMICOLON;” KEVIN TONG ZHONGLONG LIANG NING LIU KHAI DINH NGUYEN | Project: Orbis A CRM System to help our client (migration agency) optimise the business process, including information gathering (form builder), improving customer experience (with progress tracking) and business management (reminders, calendar, reporting). |
| November 2019 | Team 22 JIN JIANG MUHAMMED AMRI MOHIDEEN MUHAMMAD MIKAIL BIN JAMIL TRISTAN GILES MORRISON | Project: Huntingtons Victoria (Peer Support Forum) The Huntington’s Victoria Peer Support Forum is an online space for those affected by Huntington’s Disease to connect, discuss and receive support. The forum features topical discussion threads, live webinars and online peer-to-peer video/audio chat. |
| November 2019 | Team “Three” YIWEN DENG XINRU JIA JUSTIN ROBERT HENRY THANH TUYEN LE | Project: Emotional Health Centre The Working Wellness platform allows patients seeking mental health assistance through their Employee Assistance program to receive therapy online. Patients can select an ideal therapist; book sessions & connect with their therapist via video conferencing. |