Tech Tempest is a simulation for senior secondary students, run as a full day or a half day. We map it to the framework your state is teaching, at your year level, and we send you that mapping for your subject. A trained facilitator runs the day and the class teacher plays the bank, so nothing here asks you to prepare or present.
Australian schools run several frameworks side by side: Australian Curriculum Version 9, the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0, NESA syllabuses in New South Wales, and a separate senior certificate in every state. Rather than claim one framework and stop there, we describe what students actually do across the day, so you can match it to the outcomes your own programming asks for. That holds in any state, and the detail below covers the three where we deliver most often.
Senior secondary is where the day fits, and it is also where the curriculum is changing underneath it.
| State | Where the day sits |
|---|---|
| New South Wales | Commerce 7–10 from 2027. The new Commerce 7–10 Syllabus (2024) is taught from 2027, with 2026 the year schools plan and prepare. A Tech Tempest day gives a Stage 5 Commerce class one authentic problem to run end to end: a client brief, a costed decision under competition, and a pitch that has to persuade. It sits alongside Computing Technology 7–10 for the technology strand. We have delivered to Year 10 Commerce classes in NSW Department of Education schools. |
| Victoria | Version 2.0 since 2026. Victorian schools began teaching the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 in Term 1 of 2026, so Levels 9 and 10 are settled ground rather than a transition. The day works across Economics and Business, Digital Technologies and English at Levels 9 and 10, and Victorian schools run it in the term students choose their VCE or VCE Vocational Major program. |
| Queensland | Version 9 by the end of 2028. Queensland schools began staged implementation of Australian Curriculum Version 9 in 2024 and are required to have all eight learning areas in place in Prep to Year 10 by the end of 2028. Where schools offer Economics and Business at Year 10, and in Digital Technologies and English, the day gives the year a shared task with evidence attached, in the year that decides QCE subject selection. |
Planning a day in another state? The description of what students do holds anywhere, and we will work from your framework.
Across the day, competing in up to eight teams, students:
Everything below follows from that list. Nothing on this page claims more than the day delivers.
Competitive advantage and how businesses build it. Cost, pricing and the trade-offs between them. Risk and reward. Deciding a course of action from evidence rather than instinct.
Turning a client brief into design criteria. Generating and critically comparing competing solution designs. Selecting and using emerging digital tools, including AI, to communicate to an audience. Managing a collaborative project and accounting for its risks.
Planning, rehearsing and delivering a persuasive multimodal presentation for a specific audience. Producing the written bid that sits behind it. Judging how well any text achieves the purpose it was built for.
Roles and responsibility inside a working team. The changing world of work. Pathways and job families most students have never heard of.
The ethical questions automation raises, and who carries the consequences of a decision once it is made.
Eight ancient civilisations as working models of governance, trade and innovation, used as a lens on present-day strategy rather than as historical content.
Whatever your framework calls them, the day exercises critical and creative thinking, digital literacy, ethical understanding, personal and social capability, intercultural understanding, and literacy.
Numeracy appears through pricing, budgets and risk calculation, though it is not a primary focus of the day.
Students work at the upper levels of Bloom's taxonomy throughout: analysing a client brief, evaluating competing strategies, and creating an original bid and pitch.
Students choose a senior program with a thin picture of what the work is actually like. Across the day they hold real roles inside a company. Someone reads the client, someone prices the bid, someone designs the solution, someone stands up and defends it. Students meet job families they have never heard of, and they find out which parts of the work they are good at while the stakes are still a game.
Schools run the day in the term before subject selection for that reason, often as part of a careers and pathways program, and count it against the work and enterprise learning their framework asks for.
Classes working towards VCE, HSC or QCE results are harder to release, and for a good reason. Those students are maximising a score, and a day away from the course is a day they feel they cannot spare. There the day earns its place only when it feeds assessment, so schools use it as case study material or as a practice task rather than as an enrichment event.
VCE Business Management (Units 3 and 4), Economics, Applied Computing (Data Analytics), Legal Studies, and the VCE Vocational Major, where the day serves the applied, work-related learning the VM is built around.
HSC Business Studies, Economics and Enterprise Computing, where the day supplies a business the class has run themselves to write about.
QCE Business, Economics and Digital Solutions, with repeat delivery at Queensland state schools.
The day is built on identity-based learning, where students act as their civilisation rather than as themselves, constraint-driven decision-making, consequence-rich scoring, and AI used as a tool of inquiry with verification, not as an answer machine.
The Teacher Guide has the run sheet and what your school needs to provide. The Experience shows the cards students play and how the day resolves.
Teachers who need content descriptors for unit documentation can request a current mapping for their state, framework and year level. We keep these up to date rather than publish them here, because the frameworks change and a stale code helps nobody.
This page describes the position as at September 2026. The mapping we send you is current on the day you ask for it.
Tell us your state, your subject and your year level, and we will send the current mapping. If you are planning a unit around the day, we are glad to work through your outcomes with you.
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