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The Future Anything Challenge

Make Anything Happen.

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The Future Anything Challenge is a 20-lesson innovation program for Years 5 to 12 taught by your teachers, in your classrooms, inside the subjects you already run.

With everything you need to teach tomorrow, The Future Anything Challenge is a fun and supported way to bring innovation and enterprise to your classroom.

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How it works…

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Choose your Challenge

Six ready-to-teach missions — all curriculum-aligned, fully resourced, and built around a real-world showcase.

Enterprise Streams

Students step into the role of entrepreneur, turning innovative ideas into commercial products or services with a sustainable business model.

Market Boss

Perfect for upper primary, Market Boss uses sustainability and circular economy principles to help students turn trash into treasure – culminating in an exciting pop-up market at your school.

Side Hustle

Perfect for secondary students, Side Hustle challenges young people to design a business from their skills and strengths. After launching at a live expo, students run their side hustle over two action-packed weeks, then reflect on what worked and why.

Social Enterprise

The flagship stream, Social Enterprise empowers primary and secondary students to ideate and prototype a sustainable business that blends purpose with profit – culminating in a high-energy, Shark Tank-style pitch to a panel of judges.

Impact Streams

Students lead with curiosity and creativity, designing innovative ideas that create change. These units don’t require the idea to have a viable business model.

Passion Project

Perfect for upper primary and lower secondary, Passion Project gives students the chance to explore their interests and share what matters most – culminating in a dynamic, student-led expo designed to spark connection, curiosity, or change.

Community Impact

Perfect for upper primary and secondary students, Community Impact empowers every young person to be a leader; presenting their own change initiative to local decision makers for the funding to support a pilot project.

Tech for Good

Designed for upper secondary, Tech for Good challenges students to create innovative, tech-powered solutions that build a fairer, more inclusive, and connected world. The experience culminates in a Future Tech Expo, where students demo their solutions.

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What's Included

“Fully resourced” isn’t a slogan. Here’s what’s actually in the box…

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Support and Capacity Building

A real team behind you, for the full 12 months — not just launch week. Support includes 1-1 coaching from Future Anything staff. Ondemand PD in our Learning Hub. Bev, your
teachers’ AI assistant, on call 24/7. The Idea Factory, a virtual boardroom where students workshop ideas with five AI mentors.

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Teach it tomorrow

The Future Anything Challenge ships with a full set of lesson materials — ready-to-teach slide decks, detailed lesson plans, templates and case studies. Three Learning Peaks built in as natural assessment moments. Teachers open, project, teach.

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Unlimited Students and Teachers

Choose your challenge ‘mission’, and then unlock access for unlimited teachers and students for a year. Run a semester based elective? No worries, deliver the challenge twice with each cohort.

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Pathway to $150k in prizes for students

Every student who participates in The Future Anything Challenge at your school can apply for The Future Anything Finals — a global stage, a share of $150k in prizes and funding, and the support to take an idea out of the classroom into the real world.

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Run the Challenge your Way

The Future Anything Challenge schools don’t need a new subject, a new timetable, or a new specialist teacher. Hundreds of schools have run the program across many delivery models. Choose one of the below, or chat to us about how the program might fit within your school’s context.

  1. An assessable unit inside an existing subject
  2. As a non-assessable unit within a pastoral care program
  3. A plug-and-play option for a new elective subject
  4. As an accelerated block within an alternative program

The Future Anything Challenge has been delivered in 1,800+ classrooms, which means we’ve seen it all. If you have another way you’d like to embed The Future Anything Challenge in your school (perhaps as a co-curricular club) get in touch.

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Impact

Who recommends The Future Anything Challenge?

96%

of teachers would recommend The Future Anything Challenge to others

85%

of primary students would recommend The Future Anything Challenge to others

76%

of secondary students would recommend The Future Anything Challenge to others

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Trusted by schools, educators and innovators across the globe

Funding

The Xccelerate Fund

The Xccelerate Fund provides co-funding to help you bring Future Anything to your school. Through this fund, we aim to:

  • Remove financial barriers so more students can participate in Future Anything programs.
  • Prioritise equity by supporting schools working with underserved, at-risk, and underrepresented communities.
  • Amplify opportunity for students and teachers to innovate, create, and lead change in their schools and communities.
  • Invest in sustainable impact, helping schools build the capability and confidence to fund participation beyond the first year.
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Testimonials

Voices from The Future Anything Challenge

What students and teachers say about The Future Anything Challenge.

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"The program has influenced not just my schoolwork but my whole life. In fact it has changed my whole outlook on school. The opportunities I received were incredible. I got to and still do collaborate with the most amazing people, but what mattered most was the confidence and skills I gained. Future Anything isn’t something you just “win once” — it keeps supporting you well into the future."
Alexander Kakagiannis
Brisbane South State Secondary College
"Future Anything gave me the structure, mentorship, and confidence to turn those ideas into a real enterprise. Their workshops pushed me to refine my product, sharpen my pitch, and think strategically about growth. Future Anything also ignited a deeper purpose in me: empowering other young entrepreneurs. In 2023 I launched Youngpreneur Markets By Chloe to give young makers and innovators a platform to showcase their products, develop skills, and build confidence... proof that the ripple effect of Future Anything’s work is real and growing."
Chloe Alley
2021 Future Anything Grand Final Winner
"Absolutely mindblowing what the students can achieve when you give them the framework, belief and agency. So extremely proud of all of the students who participated in The Future Anything Challenge this year! What an experience... it will be a highlight of their education!”
Teacher
"The Future Anything Challenge is such a valuable program to help students develop essential skills. Everybody steps out of their comfort zones in teaching and learning which is what leads to amazing ideas and productive risk taking. My students thoroughly enjoyed the program.”
Teacher
"I have taught The Future Anything Challenge program for five years and I absolutely love it. I’ve been to three National Grand Finals and Future Anything always puts on an excellent event. But our most important congratulations go to all the students who make this program what it is.”
Educator of the Year 2023, ​Vicki Cull
Redbank Plains State High School
“[I learned] how to start a business, and communicate correctly and effectively. it has helped me better my more creative side of thinking.”
Student
Canterbury College, QLD
“I am a beginning teacher and I found that the Future Anything Challenge really encapsulated a teaching style that I want to apply to other classes as well. The project-based-learning style that culminates in the showcase/pitch day held a lot of meaning for the students, and had clear application of skills that students need beyond the classroom.”
Teacher
Kenmore State High School, QLD
"I learned what an entrepreneur really is, and how to truly innovate brand new ideas.”
Student
Matthew Flinders Anglican College, QLD
"The Future Anything Challenge challenges the idea that students only have two pathways after school: university or a trade. It opens up a third option, showing young people that they can explore opportunities beyond traditional routes and even turn their passion into their profession.”
Teacher
Brisbane South State Secondary College
"The journey that the FA program took me on completely changed the trajectory of my life. It helped me overcome some of my social anxiety and I found myself being able to network and pitch to a room of 200 people. It fostered my passion for entrepreneurship, specifically social entrepreneurship, which led to my work today at 180 Degrees Consulting QUT. It allowed me to get a real taste of entrepreneurship, and where that could take me in life."
Jordan O’dell-Fontana
Brisbane State High School
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When are The Future Anything Challenge 2026 Finals being held?

The Semi Finals 2026 will be held online in October 2026.

There will be eight one-hour Semi Finals spread over two days with a total of 40 teams pitching live online. The Grand Final 2026 will be held in Brisbane (and livestreamed via YouTube) in November 2026. All the details will be announced in due course, but be sure to keep an eye on the 2026 Future Anything Challenge page here.

I’m looking for information about the 2026 Challenge in particular (dates, unit overviews, forms)?

Head to our 2026 Future Anything Challenge page here!

Is The Future Anything Challenge the same as Activate and The [X] Challenge?

The program has had many evolutions since it began (in 2018!). Short answer is yes, The Future Anything Challenge is the same as Activate and The [X] Challenge.

Our school doesn’t have the budget for The Future Anything Challenge, but our students would really benefit from the content. What can we do?

Have you seen our Xccelerate Fund? We’re aiming to co-fund 30 schools this year. Read more and apply here.

How much does The Future Anything Challenge cost?

All of this information and more is in our brochure. Download it here.