Coaching-led learning
Guided questions, encouragement and feedback help students develop their own ideas.
Educators support independent thinking rather than simply providing ready-made solutions.
Innovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Discover opportunities. Create value. Think like an entrepreneur. Explore how ideas become useful, sustainable ventures.
Curriculum overviewEntrepreneurship & Future Readiness · Apply
Register Your Interest Program description
Discover opportunities. Create value. Think like an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurship introduces students to the mindset and practical processes involved in identifying opportunities and developing ideas that create value for others.
Students explore how entrepreneurs recognise needs, understand customers, develop solutions and make decisions about limited resources.
Through practical activities, collaborative challenges and guided venture simulations, students investigate the relationship between problems, products, services and the people who may benefit from them.
The program introduces foundational concepts such as value propositions, customer discovery, business models, costs, pricing, sustainability and responsible business practices.
Students learn that entrepreneurship involves more than making money. They explore how organisations and ventures can create social, educational, environmental or economic value.
Through coaching, experimentation and reflection, students practise developing ideas and evaluating their assumptions.
They consider what makes an idea useful, whether people would want it and what resources may be needed to deliver it.
The program concludes with students developing and presenting an age-appropriate venture concept. Students are not required to establish an actual business or undertake commercial transactions.
What students will learn
Purposeful skills, built through practice.
Recognise entrepreneurial opportunities
Understand customer needs
Develop a value proposition
Explore basic business models
Consider costs and sustainability
Evaluate assumptions
Refine and present a venture concept
The Forge difference
Why Families Choose Forge Innovation & Entrepreneurship
From curiosity to contribution—students develop ideas through guided inquiry, practical projects, feedback and reflection.
Real-world problem-solving
Students investigate meaningful challenges and explore practical ways to address them.
Learning connects to everyday experiences, communities and potential user needs.
Creativity & experimentation
Students generate ideas, experiment with solutions and learn through iteration.
Unsuccessful experiments can become useful sources of feedback and learning.
Teamwork & leadership
Collaborative challenges create opportunities to practise communication, initiative and responsibility.
Students may contribute through different strengths, personalities and roles.
Age-appropriate development
Learning challenges are matched to students' age, interests and experience.
Younger learners may use guided activities while experienced learners tackle more complex projects.
Meaningful project outcomes
Students work towards tangible projects that demonstrate their ideas and learning.
Projects may include prototypes, invention models, leadership projects, venture concepts and pitches; commercial outcomes are not promised.
Innovation inquiry cycle
Find. Observe. Reimagine. Generate. Evaluate.
This course-specific inquiry cycle connects curiosity, human-centred observation, creative problem-solving, practical application and reflection. The academy-wide Explore · Build · Apply · Master progression remains authoritative.
01
Find
02
Observe
03
Reimagine
04
Generate
05
Evaluate
Curriculum
Core learning, clearly connected.
Each area is developed through guided explanation, practical work, testing and reflection.
Learning area 1
Identifying problems, needs and opportunities.
Learning area 2
Understanding customers and potential users.
Learning area 3
Developing value propositions and solution ideas.
Learning area 4
Exploring basic business models, costs and revenue.
Learning area 5
Considering sustainability, ethics and responsible decision-making.
Learning area 6
Developing, testing and communicating venture concepts.
Eight-session curriculum
A clear journey from first practice to final reflection.
An introductory term sequence. Register your interest to hear when classes open.
- Session 1
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur
Students explore entrepreneurship through age-appropriate examples of products, services and community initiatives.
- Session 2
Discovering Opportunities
Students identify everyday problems and consider who experiences them.
- Session 3
Understanding Customers
Students practise appropriate customer-discovery activities and describe their intended audience.
- Session 4
Creating a Value Proposition
Students develop a possible solution and explain why it may be useful.
- Session 5
Understanding Business Models
Students explore how a venture might deliver value and what resources or activities it would require.
- Session 6
Costs, Pricing and Sustainability
Students investigate simple cost and pricing concepts and consider economic, social and environmental sustainability.
- Session 7
Testing and Refining the Idea
Students seek appropriate feedback and improve their venture concepts.
- Session 8
Entrepreneurship Showcase
Students present their proposed venture and explain what they learned.
Student project
The Young Entrepreneur Challenge
Students develop a simulated venture concept addressing an identified need, such as a school product, digital learning resource, environmentally considerate service, community improvement concept or creative product. They prepare a problem statement, audience, product or service, value proposition, simple business model, illustrative cost and pricing assumptions, responsible practices and a short presentation. Students do not register a business, collect payments or enter binding agreements.
Core skills and outcomes
Learning students can explain and apply.
Recognise entrepreneurial opportunities
Understand customer needs
Develop a value proposition
Explore basic business models
Consider costs and sustainability
Evaluate assumptions
Refine and present a venture concept
Your Credential Pathway
Learning that leads somewhere beyond attendance.
This course contributes towards the relevant Academy credential pathway. Students who complete the required learning and demonstrate the assessment standard may become eligible for certification.
- 01
Learn
Complete the Academy program.
- 02
Practise
Develop capability through challenges and guided activities.
- 03
Demonstrate
Complete an applied project or performance.
- 04
Assess
Complete the relevant practical assessment and/or certification examination.
- 05
Credential
Earn the relevant Innovate Forge Academy credential when requirements are successfully demonstrated.
Applied credential pathway
Credential opportunity
Entrepreneurship Foundations
Assessment
Practical challenge + pitch
Demonstrate
Identify a problem, target user, solution, value and simple model — then explain it.
Next step
Future Founder Credential
Explore Certification Pathway- Pathway
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Current program
- Entrepreneurship
- Assessment type
- Model C — Practical / Performance · Practical challenge + pitch
- Exam requirement
- No written exam required — recognition is based on demonstrated entrepreneurial thinking
- Prerequisite
- None — readiness and pathway requirements apply
- Next credential
- Future Founder Credential
Where can this learning lead?
- Course
- Innovation Challenges
- Prototype
- Pitch
- Future Founder Credential
- Entrepreneurship Capstone
Growth & Care approach
More than a course. A supported learning journey.
Coaching can help learners test assumptions and develop their own venture ideas; appropriate mentoring can encourage initiative and responsible decisions; and pastoral care maintains an inclusive, child-safe environment without promising commercial success.
The exact coaching, mentoring and pastoral-care practices included are confirmed for each program. An individually assigned mentor is not promised.
Explore our learning approachResponsible entrepreneurship
Educational simulation, not commercial pressure.
These courses develop thinking, communication and project capability. They do not promise profitable ventures, investment, guaranteed leadership outcomes or implemented solutions.
The Forge App
Continue learning with the Forge App.
Forge supports opportunity exploration, value propositions, venture-planning resources. Parents can follow progress from the parent portal.
Opportunity exploration
Value propositions
Venture-planning resources
Suggested learning journey
From curiosity to contribution.
This journey is flexible, not a mandatory prerequisite chain. Students may enter at an appropriate point based on age, interests and experience.
Enrolment Open
Young Leaders
Young Leaders supports teamwork, initiative and responsible leadership across the journey. It is not a mandatory prerequisite.
Explore Young LeadersForge learning support
Forge supports opportunity exploration, value propositions, venture-planning resources. Parents can follow progress from the parent portal.
Available sessions
No Entrepreneurship session is currently confirmed. Register your interest for approved dates, locations and delivery details.
View Term 1 2027 catalogueFees and enrolment
Fees, available places and enrolment arrangements have not been approved. Register your interest to receive confirmed information.
Register Your InterestFrequently asked
Course questions.
Who is this program suitable for?
Years 6–10. The suggested year range is provisional and requires curriculum approval. Beginners welcome. Guidance is matched to learner age and experience. Educators can help families identify an appropriate entry point.
How are students grouped by age and experience?
Grouping is confirmed for each approved intake. Educators consider age, interests, previous experience and the complexity of the project.
What happens during a typical session?
The program combines guided inquiry, practical challenges, individual or team work, constructive feedback and reflection. Exact activities are adapted to the learner group.
Do students work individually or in teams?
The curriculum may include both individual and collaborative activities. Roles and expectations are adapted to age, strengths and the approved project.
What project will my child develop?
The Young Entrepreneur Challenge: Students develop a simulated venture concept addressing an identified need, such as a school product, digital learning resource, environmentally considerate service, community improvement concept or creative product. They prepare a problem statement, audience, product or service, value proposition, simple business model, illustrative cost and pricing assumptions, responsible practices and a short presentation. Students do not register a business, collect payments or enter binding agreements.
How does coaching support individual learning?
Educators use questions, encouragement, appropriate challenge and constructive feedback to support independent thinking rather than provide ready-made solutions. An individually assigned mentor is not promised.
Does the program require expensive equipment?
No equipment requirement is confirmed on this page. Approved materials, tools, device needs and safety arrangements are communicated for each intake before enrolment.
Do students need to establish a real business?
No. Venture work is an educational simulation. Students are not required to register a business, accept payments, make financial commitments or enter binding agreements.
Will students use AI?
AI is not promised. Any future use requires separate approval and age, privacy, authorship and safeguarding controls.
How are student projects and personal information protected?
Public sharing, fundraising, external engagement and identifiable student material require appropriate adult approval, supervision and permission. Student intellectual property and authorship are respected.
Does completing this course guarantee confidence or business success?
No. Students receive opportunities to practise and reflect, but no confidence, leadership, commercial, investment or profitability outcome is guaranteed.
What program should my child take next?
Suggested next steps include Future Founders and Design Thinking. Digital Entrepreneurship and Student Venture Mastery remain enquiry-only possibilities.
Where and when are classes available?
No date, time, venue, trainer, capacity or commencement date is confirmed on this page. Register your interest to receive approved details.
Related courses
Continue the learning journey.
These are suggested routes, not mandatory prerequisites. Existing experience can support a different entry point.
Innovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Future Founders
Develop a concept, understand its audience and deliver a persuasive pitch.
Years 7–9 for the existing curriculum specification. This guidance requires curriculum approval. Developing entrepreneurial learners. Guidance is matched to learner age and experience.
Explore program
Innovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Future Readiness
Build adaptable skills for changing study, work and community contexts.
Years 7–12. This suggested year range is provisional and requires founder approval.
Explore programInnovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Design Thinking
Understand people, define challenges and prototype thoughtful solutions.
Years 3–9. The suggested year range is provisional and requires curriculum approval. Beginners welcome. Guidance is matched to learner age and experience.
Explore program
Communication & Leadership
Presentation Skills
Plan and deliver clear, engaging presentations.
Years 5–12. Guidance is matched to learner age and experience. Beginner to advanced.
Explore programCurriculum-connected
Curriculum & capability connections
Entrepreneurship links with economics and business ideas in Humanities — understanding customers, value and simple planning.
Practical skills and activities
- Researching a customer need
- Developing a simple venture idea
- Pitching to an audience
General capabilities
Critical and Creative ThinkingPersonal and Social CapabilityEthical Understanding
View Curriculum Connections
Australian Curriculum v9
- Technologies — Design and TechnologiesSupporting connectionInvestigating needs, generating and evaluating ideas, prototyping
- Humanities and Social SciencesSupporting connectionCommunity needs, economics and business thinking
- MathematicsSupporting connectionSimple costing and budgeting
Victorian Curriculum
- Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social, and Ethical capabilities (Victorian Curriculum 2.0)
- Design and Technologies — design processes
International references
- IB Approaches to Learning — thinking, communication and social skills
- IB Approaches to Learning — self-management and research skills
- ISTE Standards for Students — Innovative Designer
These connections show how the program complements school learning. They are not accreditation or endorsement by any curriculum authority, and participation does not replace school assessment. Schools can request a program-level mapping summary.
Developing capability, confidence, character and direction
Some students also benefit from a guide.
Coaching, mentoring and future-pathway conversations can help students turn interests into goals, projects and informed next steps.
Forge Discovery Starter Session
New to this learning area?
Not sure whether this program is the right starting point for your child? Explore our Forge Discovery Starter Session and discover an introductory learning experience relevant to your child's interests.
Interested in this program?
Tell us what your learner is curious about and we’ll help identify an appropriate next step.