Future Anything supports schools with a portfolio of curriculum-aligned programs for educators and students that build the 21st Century Skills that young people need to thrive in our ever-evolving world. Why Future Anything? We know schools and we know curriculum. Founded and led by an experienced team of educators, our programs are co-designed with teachers and young people and aligned to curriculum. We’re flexible, collaborative and responsive. We know every school (and class) is different. We work with you and your teaching team to contextualise your program so that it supports the needs of your students. We’re here for educators, every step of the way We work with you and your team to ensure the learnings and impact of our work together continue beyond your program. We’re here for students We provide post-program pathways for your passionate innovators to take their ideas out of the classroom and into the real world
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Did you hear? The 2024 Future Anything National Grand Final photo album just dropped! 🔥 Head to our Facebook to check out all the good stuff: https://lnkd.in/gZdbw2Uc
Have you registered for our 9-week Building Engaging Curriculum online program? The primary and secondary educators who do it always rave about its value, so jump on in! At the end of the program, you'll have a fully resourced unit of curriculum, complete with curriculum-aligned assessment instrument(s), entry and showcase events and an explicit framework embedded to build a chosen capability (think general capabilities or 21st Century Skills). It's going to be brill! EARLY BIRD CLOSES SOON! Register now: https://lnkd.in/gRwxxmRx
Introducing the Future Anything National Grand Final Showcase Winners! In the culmination of Future Anything’s Activate 2024 program, eighteen teams of school-age entrepreneurs took part in the Grand Final's buzzing Showcase Expo. EduGo Mobile Tutoring from Kenmore State High School was awarded top spot as the 2024 Showcase Winner. Their innovative idea brings affordable tutoring to underserved communities through a bus that travels around lower-income neighbourhoods. Taking out the Showcase Runner Up spot was Bass Buster Lures from Canterbury College, who are creating lead-free fishing lures to end oceanic lead pollution, promoting a healthy marine environment without compromising quality. Bass Buster Lures also took out the coveted People’s Vote, with hundreds of votes cast by the audience at The Triffid on the night. For the first time in 2024, a number of other teams were also recognised in special categories including Scent of Australia (Brigidine College Indooroopilly) who picked up the Showcase Sustainability Award 2024, NerFly (Queensland Academies Health Sciences Campus (qahsgc)) who collected the Showcase Innovation Award 2024 and Bright Knights (Ferny Grove State High School) who took home the Showcase Community Impact Award 2024. A huge thanks to all the young people, their teachers and schools, and the judges and sponsors who made this night such a success! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gTA2ydqz
Introducing the Future Anything National Grand Final Educator Award Winners! 2024 was a record year for Future Anything’s Activate in-curriculum school entrepreneurship program with 7500+ students, 300+ teachers and almost 80 schools across Australia and New Zealand bending the future, one youth-led idea at a time. Reflecting on the Awards, Future Anything’s Dan Dempsey said on the night, “Teachers in schools are the backbone of our Activate program. They are doing incredible work to embed the program... making it a fundamental part the learning their students embark on. Without them, our young people would not have the support they need unleash their incredible passion and potential.” Allow us to introduce you to them! Trailblazer 2024: This award recognises an outstanding first-year teacher of Future Anything’s Activate in-curriculum entrepreneurship program. Congratulations Mary Roberts from St Joseph’s School, Stanthorpe (QLD)! Educator of the Year 2024: This award recognised an experienced Future Anything educator, one who not only ‘thinks like an entrepreneur’ in their own approach to teaching and learning, but has also built an enterprising culture in their students, staff and school community. Congratulations Rachel Noonan from Loreto Kirribilli (NSW)! Team of the Year 2024: This award recognises teams of outstanding Future Anything educators. Ferny Grove State High School (QLD) took home the award this year, against very stiff competition! Thank you to every teacher and every school that adopted the Activate program this year. We can't wait to do it all again next year! Read more about our Educator Award Winners here: https://lnkd.in/grSq-mMj
Introducing the Future Anything National Grand Final Pitch Winner: Alexander, Founder of E-Scooter trailers from Brisbane South State Secondary College! Built using carbon fibre, the patented Carbon Cart increases safety by reducing crashes from overloaded e-scooters, helping riders transport groceries and other goods safely and easily. Congratulating Alexander on his win, judge Dinesh commented “You’ve considered so many different factors, and you’ve got a plan, and I think this is something that could really work. I loved it!” Judge Chrisanthi Demos added “E-Scooter Trailers is an amazing idea with incredible thought that’s gone into it. And it was an incredible pitch too. The research and work that Alexander had done to put together a business plan and costings, combined with a bit of sass, are really important parts of entrepreneurialism.” Read more about Alexander and our Runners Up Safe Surf and Highly Commended Kikjabs in our website.
Are you a primary or secondary school educator looking to deepen your understanding of project-based learning, design thinking and inquiry with the goal of applying these principles to re-imagine curriculum and assessment? Register for our next Building Engaging Curriculum live learning professional development workshop! Over nine weeks, participants will engage in weekly online workshops, designed to support you to re-design a chosen unit of curriculum in real-time so that it is curriculum (did someone say V9?) aligned, real world, relevant and engaging for students. 100% of former participants would recommend this workshop to others, so you know you'll be in good hands. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gRwxxmRx
It’s World Social Enterprise Day and we thought it was the perfect opportunity to highlight seven years of Future Anything Grand Final Pitch Winners! The Activate program puts creativity and innovation in the spotlight. It assures us that the future is in good hands as new, optimistic and clear-eyed generations craft the solutions to the world’s most complex problems. Don’t believe us? Check out these young people: In 2018 we saw Tanika, whose social enterprise Shielded Socks were white above the cut of the shoe, but patterned beneath, so she couldn’t get in trouble for wearing non-uniform socks to school. The metaphor? You never know what’s going on for someone below the surface. Profits from the sales of these socks went to Kids Helpline. In 2019, three young Polynesian students launched Culturehood. Noticing there was a spike in domestic violence figures in their community, they worked with an artist to design their own hoodies, with profits supporting survivors of domestic violence. In 2020 we met Aqua Shield, who identified that the shark nets off their coast kill more sea life than they were stopping sharks! They took the technology that exists in wristbands for surfers to repel sharks, and retrofitted them on flotation devices. In 2021, Chloe partnered with farmers and sustainability organisations to sell wheat packs. She’s been sewing them for her mum, who worked night shifts at the hospital, since she was just 11 years old. She’s now in Year 12 and she’s started her own Youngpreneur markets in Moreton Bay. In 2022, Eco Beds were formed out of a frustration that these students’ dogs kept eating their dog beds. After researching sustainable, indestructible materials, they came across Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests. They used Kevlar and turned it into sturdy and comfortable dog beds. In 2023 our winners realised, through their own personal experiences, that if you were a person with disability or accessibility challenges, you couldn’t be certified to administer first aid. So, they created the world’s first First Aid Certification for people with accessibility challenges. And this year, our winners, E-scooter Trailers, increases safety by reducing crashes from overloaded e-scooters by using carbon fibre, helping riders transport groceries and other goods safely and easily. We can’t wait to see the solutions students will work on next year. Get in touch if you want to bring Activate to your school! https://lnkd.in/e9B9xJxN
What a NIGHT! The Future Anything National Grand Final absolutely blew us away, and we couldn't be more proud of the students, teachers and schools that made this possible. Thanks to the 300+ that braved the rain to join us in person (spending $1700+ in our Showcase Market!), as well as the hundreds that joined us on the livestream. Without further ado: - Grand Final Winner: E-Scooter Trailers (Brisbane South State Secondary College) - Grand Final Runner Up: SafeSurf (Matthew Flinders Anglican College) - Highly Commended: Kikjabs (MacGregor State High School) - Showcase Winner: EduGo Mobile Tutoring (Kenmore State High School) - Showcase Runner Up: Bass Buster Lures (Canterbury College) - Showcase Innovation Award: NerFly (Queensland Academies Health Sciences Campus (qahsgc)) - Showcase Sustainability Award: Scent of Australia (Brigidine College Indooroopilly) - Showcase Community Impact Award: Bright Knights (Ferny Grove State High School) - Showcase People's Choice Award: Bass Buster Lures (Canterbury College) Educator Awards: - Trailblazer of the Year: Mary Roberts from St Joseph's College, Stanthorpe - Educator of the Year: Rachel Noonan (Loreto Kirribilli) - Team of the Year: Ferny Grove State High School We'll introduce you to them in more detail over the next week, but for now, click the link to relive all the action from the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/gXHFSgiM A huge thank you to our major sponsor Queensland Government (through the Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science, and Innovation) and our prize partners Advance Queensland, Be Social. Be Smart., CFO Plus - Your Outsourced Finance Department, Made By James, Greater Outcomes , Queensland Social Enterprise Council, QUT Entrepreneurship, Social Impact Hub, Women In Digital, Youngpreneur Markets, YouthX and Zenith Journey. Finally, the people with the toughest role on the night - our fantastic judges. Thank you to Alana Kennedy, Chrisanthi Demos, Dinesh Palipana, Blaize Saxon, Harley Drake, Murray Galbraith, and Adele Laughton for supporting and nurturing the next generation of changemakers.
The Future Anything National Grand Final starts in just 15 MINUTES! Tune into the live stream to watch our finalists pitching for funding and support to launch their businesses into the real world: https://lnkd.in/gypU26c3
What are you doing for World Social Enterprise Day this Thursday 21 November? Queensland Social Enterprise Council are hosting a breakfast panel event at Marhaba Café, and we'd love to see you there for what we know will be a fascinating conversation. The Queensland Small Business Commissioner, Dominque Lamb, will moderate the panel, which will feature new Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Energy and Home Ownership, David Janetzki, alongside two social enterprises that won this year’s Lord Mayor’s Business Awards – Nicole Dyson, Founder of Future Anything (Social Enterprise of the Year) and Troy Casey, Founder of Blaklash (Small Business of the Year). This is a limited-capacity event due to venue size, so please use this link to register: https://bit.ly/3CwWlpr We look forward to seeing you there!