The Technology Challenge Maryborough is an annual event held in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. The event aims to help develop efficient, environmentally friendly, vehicles as forms of transport, as well as using emerging technologies in ways to help further students education. Schools from across Australia and New Zealand enter teams in the challenge. The blue-ribbon event at the Challenge is the 24 hour Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Endurance race. In 2002, when the challenge was run for the first time, there were only 2 categories of competition - Smilie Pushcarts (billy carts powered not by gravity but by a student pushing) and HPVs. The very first winner of the HPV race was a team from Maryborough State High School.