The world of work is changing. In their lifetime, the average young Australian will have seventeen different jobs across five different industries (McCrindle 2015). Employers are listing more enterprise skills than technical skills in job advertisements (FYA 2016) yet research indicates that over 1/3 of young people are not proficient in these areas (FYA 2016).
Activate is Future Anything’s flagship in-curriculum program that empowers teachers, schools, and young people to build innovative ideas and enterprising mindsets. Delivered over a Term or Semester, Activate integrates fully with the mainstream curriculum delivery as an assessable unit of work. Activate includes face-to-face professional learning (train the trainer), a fully-resourced curriculum (based on our proprietary curriculum) via our online platform, access to every school's own 'Entrepreneur in Residence', and the opportunity for students to pitch in our National Grand Final for $50k+ in prizes and funding.
We know FA works. Analysis of the change in Activate students’ confidence showed increases across all six core future capability measures:
- Communication: +10%
- Collaboration: +3%
- Problem-Solving: +3%
- Critical Thinking: +5%
- Innovation: +10%
- Adaptive Mindset: +6%
And in our 2022 Post-Workshop Teacher Survey, 99% would recommend the program to others.
Future Anything’s business portfolio has expanded through both the expansion of existing products (eg expanding Activate to multiple subject streams + creation of a new Primary school, offering) and the introduction of new products (eg an extensive teacher PD portfolio)
As a result, FA has scaled significantly in the last two years with our customer base growing from 2020 to 2024 as follows:
From 42 schools to 150 schools
From c.69 teachers to c. 1586 teachers
From c.2400 students to 13,000+ students
From a strong but largely QLD-focussed base in 2020, Future Anything expanded into all other Australian States and in recently secured its first customer in New Zealand. Our intention in the next 2-3 years is to further expand internationally.
For more information on Activate , our flagship program, head here: https://futureanything.com/activate/
You can download the brochure, register for the program or contact one of the team to chat further about how Activate might unleash enterprising thinkers and doers in your school.
