Tech Tempest® for Schools

Three thousand years of wisdom. One school day.
A business simulation for senior secondary students, run as a full day or a half day, mapped to the Australian curriculum.

What It Is

Eight great civilisations return as companies in today's market, building the next generation of services for one of the world's largest industries. For a day, your classroom is that market. Students form companies, plan and build a new service, and pitch it to a demanding client, with AI at their side and a live scoreboard tracking every move.

For students

Nothing to memorise, everything to decide. Students work in a team on a problem with real numbers attached, use AI to think rather than to answer, and stand up at the end to defend what they built. By the final pitch they have run a company from first meeting to closing argument, and met the roles and job families inside it, in the year they choose their senior subjects.

For teachers

No preparation required. There are two roles on the day: a trained facilitator runs the simulation, and you play the bank, the client every team is pitching to. That puts you in the best seat in the room for watching your students think under pressure. The pitch is the assessment, and we will send you the mapping for your subject and year level.

At a Glance

Who it is for

Senior secondary students. No prior business or technology knowledge needed.

Curriculum

Mapped to Australian Curriculum Version 9, and to the state frameworks built on it: the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0, and the new NSW Stage 5 syllabuses taught from 2027.

Format

A full school day, or a half day. Up to eight teams, a live scoreboard, and a final pitch to the bank.

Two roles

A trained facilitator runs the simulation. The class teacher plays the bank the teams pitch to.

Subject selection

Students take real roles in a working company and meet job families they have never heard of, before they choose a senior program.

Track record

Delivered to hundreds of students in schools across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

Before You Book

Curriculum

Where the day sits in your state, what it offers in the certificate years, and how to request the mapping for your subject.

View curriculum alignment
The Experience

What students actually do across the day, and what they produce at each stage.

See it in action
Teacher Guide

How the day runs, what your school needs to provide, and the learning outcomes.

Read the guide
Why This Matters Now

What is changing in the work your students are heading into, and what it means for a student choosing a senior program.

Read the case

Companion Modules

The Great Stink and Cyber Tempest

Two shorter modules from the same world, which run inside a Tech Tempest day or on their own. In The Great Stink, students redesign a business process with automation and AI agents, and see what technology change costs and creates. In Cyber Tempest, teams face a crisis with incomplete information and AI advice that may be confidently wrong, and have to decide together while the pressure is on.

Tell us if either would suit your class and we will build it into the day.

Book a day

Tell us the year level, how many students, and whether you have a full day or a half day, and we will come back with dates and a price.

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