Our Resources
Free tools, guides and templates from the programs we run. Written for teachers, students and young founders.
Learning Materials
Explore by what you are trying to do, whether that is running a session,
starting something yourself, or finding your next step.
Founder Guides
Books, tools and podcasts we recommend when a 16-year-old asks where to begin.
Startups in the classroom
A practical guide to running entrepreneurship in one period - no budget or experience required.
Youth Engagement Playbook
What 30+ organisations learned about getting young people through the door - and keeping them engaged.
Youth Opportunities
A live collection of scholarships, competitions, programs and other opportunities for young people.
Youth-led sector mapping
A searchable map of youth-led organisations across Australia, organised by what they do and where they work.
Founder guides
Here are the books, tools and podcasts we actually recommend when a 16-year-old asks us where to begin.
Startups in the classroom
Here are resources on how to run entrepreneurship in a single period, with no budget and no prior experience.
Australia’s youth-led organisation mapping
We mapped the 250+ youth-led organisations working across Australia so young people could find them. Browse by what they do or where they are, and read more about any of them in our resources.
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Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship (ACRE)
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Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Youth Engagement Playbook
Twelve months of work with 30+ organisations on what actually gets young people through the door and keeps them there.
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Past Challenges
Showcase previous challenge themes and highlight the ideas that emerged from earlier cohorts.
ImpactHack: Retail Reimagined invites students to explore the future of retail by designing innovative solutions that blend technology, sustainability and human‑centred thinking to create smarter, more seamless and more meaningful customer experiences.
Delivered and facilitated in partnership with Monash University and UNIQLO Australia
Maruf Hasan
James Chan
Satoshi Naito
Noriaki Koyama
Tim Routley
As the cost of housing, food and healthcare keeps rising, more people are feeling shut out and anxious about the future. Financial stress is chipping away at social cohesion, leaving people with less trust, less belonging and less hope.
How might we design products, services or systems that help people participate more fully in the economy and feel valued, especially those doing it toughest like renters, low-income earners, recent migrants, students and people in insecure work?
Delivered and facilitated in partnership with Monash University and Scanlon Foundation.
Lucy Watson
Mengting Cao
Fernanda Mata
Indigenous cultures, histories and knowledges hold deep value, yet they are often placed at the edges of university life rather than woven through it. Embedding them properly means honouring principles of respect for Country and moving away from old systems.
How might Indigenous Cultures, Histories and Knowledges be embedded and thrive within the Monash student experience, maintaining Indigenous principles of respect for Country and avoiding colonial systems that perpetuate extraction and exploitation?
Delivered and facilitated in partnership with Monash University and Parbinata.
Tathra Lowe
Jaya Blandthorn
Troy McGee
Jamil Tye
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Homelessness is one of the few social problems most people see with their own eyes, and still walk past. What's missing isn't compassion - it's a next step small enough to fit inside an ordinary week.
How might we design products, services, campaigns or business models that give one specific group of people, a way to act on homelessness in their own community?
Delivered and facilitated in partnership with We are Mobilise.
Hrishikesh Thatiot
Daniel Mellish
Brenna Hobson
Dr Jason Brown
Sarah Mander
At the height of COVID-19, young people across Australia were living through disruption they had no say in shaping. Casual work disappeared overnight, study was interrupted at the worst possible moment, and isolation stretched long enough to leave a mental health toll that outlasted the lockdowns themselves. Meanwhile the recovery was being designed almost entirely by people it would affect least.
How might we build a recovery that reflects what young people actually went through, using solutions they generate themselves?
Delivered in partnership with Futures Collective and Bridging Us
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School leavers
Weighing up uni, work, or a venture. Hear from people who chose each path in the last two years.
Students, Years 9-12
Curious, building something, or itching to start. Bring the idea, leave with a clearer picture and people who get it.
Teachers & careers coordinators
Teaching business, STEM or guiding careers. Bring your students, leave with a day they will bring up for the rest of the year.
