2011 Opal Awards Winners
- Winner – CQUniversity Children's Theatre Workshop – Kim Kirkman and Ian Gaskell;
- Finalist – Disaster Resilience Education Project – Julianne Impiccini, Ali Black, Lyn Hughes, Kyle Stein, ALC Management Team; and
- Finalist – Romp in the Park 2011 – Gillian Busch and Emma Killion.
Engaged Research and Innovation
- Winner – Driver Fatigue in Central Queensland - Lee Di Milia; and
- Finalist - IT at the Coalface – Ashley Holmes, Dennis Jarvis, Jacqueline Jarvis and Ricky Prout.
- Winner – Idiom 23 Writers' Workshop – Lynda Hawryluk and Liz Huf;
- Finalist – Teachers Being Childwise – Rose-Marie Thrupp;
- Finalist – International Engineering and Technology Education Conference – Arun Patil, Patrick Keleher, Amanullah Maung Than Oo, Mushtak Al-Atabi, Marlia Puteh and Sid Nair; and
- Finalist – Sea Dreams Gladstone Festival of Creative Arts – Andrew Wallace and Helen Holden.