Activation: Youth Entrepreneurship in the Classroom Future Anything

Fiona Pennisi Mitchell is a teacher at Marsden State High School in Queensland and this year was a finalist in the 2020 Australian Educator Awards. She's been involved in delivering Future Anything's Activate program in her classrooms for several years. Here, she talks to Future Anything's Nicole Dyson to unpack the changes, challenges, and choices she has made to contextualise Activate for Marsden SHS's young people. 

Vanessa Noonan is passionate about digital technology. She has geared her tertiary education, professional development projects, and recent work experience towards a career in this rapidly growing field and is well known within the community of digital pedagogy teachers. Vanessa has had the fortune of being inducted into the area of digital media, technology, and ICT integration by international leaders and is certified by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Teaching to Standards with New Technologies. 
 

Chris Gauthier is Head of Pedagogy and Languages at Springfield Central SHS in Brisbane and is passionate about all those skills that we talk about in education that we rarely see in action. So, he created his own Year 9 subject called Enterprise which centers around solving global issues.