Sit up, Australian STEM students! This contest needs you.

In science, maths and engineering faculties of universities around the world, students are beavering away, solving the unsolvable. Their mission: transform the unimpossible into the possible.
GE’s inaugural Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition is on.

Up to three students will be selected as Competition winners. Up to two second place winners will be awarded a paid internship at one of GE’s Global Research Centres, and one grand prize winner will receive a scholarship of up to $100,000 USD and a trip to GE’s New York Global Research Centre to see their idea filmed as one of the next Unimpossible Missions. Entries are invited from around the globe.

What are you waiting for, Australia and New Zealand?

This contest is as challenging as you make it, with a local (or global) idiom presenting an age-old problem for you to solve. You have until June 14 to submit your idiom and your proposed experiment to disprove it.

There’s more information, a contest summary, community forum and challenge toolkits on the Unimpossible Missions website. You’ll also get access to a lot of cool GE technology that you can employ, deploy and generally throw around to wrestle your idiom into submission.

Sign up for the free one-hour webinar here to learn more about the challenge—and the prizes. It’s at 11pm AEST on Wednesday May 18. GE staff will be on hand to answer questions and help to herd you—like cats—to make sure you make your submission fly—like a pig.

So, Australians, prove to the world you don’t have kangaroos loose in the top paddock. Get flat out like a lizard drinking—and enter the Unimpossible Missions challenge.

New Zealanders, stop having a tiki tour around your chilly bin and enter the Unimpossible Missions challenge—or you’ll be beached as.

Here’s what the GE scientists did with the idiom “Snowball’s chance in hell.”

Now, it’s your turn, and we’ve got a few local idioms to get your grey matter cooking:

Steal someone’s thunder

Talk the legs off an iron pot

Carrying on like a two-bob watch

Pushing a chain

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

Dumb as a post

Find your own idiom and devise an experiment to disprove it. Your saying or idiom doesn’t even have to even be in English—how’s that for flexible rules?

Remember, there’s a webinar this Wednesday, May 18, 11pm AEST. Sign up and ask your questions. But, fair suck of the sauce bottle, people, don’t miss out on this one.

Don’t let a bunch of Septic Tanks walk off with those spots at GE’s renowned Global Research Centres. C’mon, Aussies, c’mon! Ka mate, ka mate, Kiwis!