UTS Law Tech Challenge

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(Charlie Bruton, student): Tonight was the grand final of the UTS Law Tech Challenge and all four teams came together to present their working version of the apps.

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(Professor Isabella Alexander, UTS): This is a unique opportunity for students at UTS Law. It brings together real clients with real problems and implements solutions that further social justice.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): The Law Tech Challenge is something that students often say is their very best experience at university. It's this wonderful blend of social justice and getting your hands dirty, getting in there, solving a real world problem, and helping a client, an actual client.

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(John Lord, Neota Logic): The students amaze me with the insight and enthusiasm that they bring to delivering social justice outcomes to their community.

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(Jack Tynan, Wooton Kearney): It’s been such an exciting, engaging, fun experience. It's been awesome seeing the students embrace this issue so passionately, and I look forward to many more exciting years ahead.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): Neota Logic have been such a fantastic partner for the whole life of the challenge, for a decade. They're this beautiful global company devoted to social justice.

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(Hasti Haghshenas, student): My key takeaway was that when you are really, really familiar with a problem, you can create a really good solution, and you need to put yourself in the shoes of the person, who will benefit from your solution.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): Technology is moving really quickly. Our apps are getting more ambitious every year, and so are our students.

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(Charlie Bruton, student): My advice to a future student thinking of taking on this challenge is - do it and dive in 100%. It's a once in a lifetime experience, and it's something so unique to your law school journey. I couldn't recommend it enough to anyone.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): The Law Tech Challenge started at UTS in 2017, so it's about ten years. We've had more than thirty clients, we've built more than thirty apps, had nearly 200 students.

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(Charlie Bruton, student): The UTS Law Tech Challenge is a 12-month program where you're partnered with a team, and in that team you're partnered with a not-for-profit client. They give you a problem that they have been facing, and then you and your team come up with a solution for that problem, and you develop an app.

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(Hasti Haghshenas, student): It was really rewarding for my team and I to work with a not-for-profit client and creating an app that helps people in real life.

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(Jack Tynan, Wooton Kearney): As a mentor, I've had an incredible experience with the students. They really impressed me with their dedication to social justice and all the hard work they put in.

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(John Lord, Neota Logic): It's really important to us as human beings to contribute to our societies that we live in and benefit from.

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(Professor Isabella Alexander, UTS): The students got so much out of this challenge. Of all the co-curricular activities that you can do at UTS Law, this is one of the most important because it's wholly unlike the other kinds of things that you normally do as part of a law degree.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): One of the best things about the challenge is to see the work the students do and how they grow and mature and transform even.

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(Charlie Bruton, student): Taking part in the UTS Law Tech challenge has absolutely set me apart from other students. It has unanimously been such a positive experience.

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(Associate Professor Sacha Molitorisz, UTS): Many of these apps have a life that stretches long beyond the challenge. One of the great things about the app is the impact it has, and it has that impact in so many different directions, students, not-for-profits, and social justice.