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The Experience

Eight civilisations. One epic challenge. Every team learns. One team wins.
What a Tech Tempest day looks like from the room: the cards students play, the shape of the day, and the finale that settles it.

The Cards They Collect

Sixty-four avatars, eight for each civilisation, and every one a real historical figure with a verifiable story. Students claim a role card when their council forms, then contest capability cards all day. Every avatar carries their own tempest: the storm history sent them, and what survived it.

Hypatia avatar card: The Oracle of the Alexandrian Order, teaching geometry as Alexandria burns behind her

Hypatia of Alexandria, The Oracle of the Alexandrian Order. One of sixty-four.

Role is only half the hand. Each role pairs with a capability contested through the day, and the pairing is the strategy. Hold The Merchant and win GROWTH, and a marketing disaster that costs another team $3 million costs yours nothing. Hold The Engineer with TECH, and delivery accelerates.

Cleopatra VII avatar card: The Merchant of the Alexandrian Order, reading a scroll above the harbour

Cleopatra VII, The Merchant of the Alexandrian Order.

GROWTH capability card: a Silk Road camel caravan beneath a glowing network of stars; pairs with The Merchant

GROWTH, the capability that pairs with The Merchant.

How the Day Moves

Hudson Hanseatic Bank is building the next generation of its digital banking, and the teams compete to win the contract. Four phases, each ending in something a team has to hand over. Hypatia of Alexandria, Cleopatra of Egypt and Zenobia of Palmyra introduce each phase on video, three women who shaped the ancient world setting the brief for ours.

Discover

The Council

Teams form, take roles, and research the client's world with AI tools against a rival team. They finish with a team, a role each, and their first research.

Design

The Blueprint

Teams choose what to build, test it against real demand, and sell it as a story. They finish with a designed solution, an image and a tagline of their own making.

Deliver

The Forge

Where the work is done, on what infrastructure, released in what order. A live cost model moves under every decision. They finish with a costed bid.

Defend

The League

A risk committee prices the choices a team has made. Teams see where they sit against every rival and negotiate. They finish with a submitted bid and a risk position they argued for.

The Teacher Guide has the run sheet, with timings for each phase and the breaks between them. The Curriculum page has the alignment for your state.

Then the Tempest Arrives

Laptops down. Sixteen segments decide who captures value and who weathers the storm, settled by the role and capability cards each team has spent the day trading for. The bank reveals its budget, the scoreboard settles, and one team wins the contract.

Every team leaves with their bid, their pitch and their final ranking. Every student leaves having run a company from the first meeting to the closing argument.

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