The Super Scooters will take part in the 2020 Game Changer Challenge and explore tangible solutions for a real world wicked problem - isolation.

Hundreds of applications from NSW public schools were received for the Game Changer Challenge, which this year will be delivered as a colossal virtual event with seven semifinals culminating in a grand final.

New England and the North West is well-represented among the 84 primary and secondary student teams announced yesterday.

All teams will aim to solve the real world problem: "How might we use technology to bring everyone in our community closer together?"

The student applications covered COVID-19 restrictions, including innovative ways to social distance and sanitise, cutting-edge technology like aerial transport systems, and new ways to ease social isolation, combat racism and build community for people with disability.

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Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott said today's students will solve the great challenges of the future.

"To flourish in this world they will need to be deep thinkers, critical and reflective, empathetic and creative," he said.

"The Game Changer Challenge aims to highlight and develop these future-focused skills."

The Super Scooters from Armidale Secondary College will be joined by the other New England and North West semi-finalists : 'Bind' - Gunnedah South Public School; 'Coonabarabran Game Changers' - Coonabarabran Public School; 'Hobby Fun' - Tamworth Public School; 'MSC Gents' and MSC Ladies - Moree Secondary College; 'The D.I.S. Designers', 'The Language Helpers' and 'The Technoframe Inventors' - Tamworth Public School