Ripyl Innovation Challenge
FREE Secondary School Business Challenge
This is a FREE challenge running across New South Wales secondary schools in Term 4, 2025. Student teams work to design a fictional fundraiser for their school. Each team will select an event type before developing the design of their fundraiser. Teams will identify stakeholders, estimate costs and pricing, calculate potential funds that could be raised, and create an advert to promote the event, before presenting their final idea.
The challenge provides a great opportunity for students to apply business concepts in a practical way, while developing skills such as problem-solving, financial decision-making, collaboration, and communication skills.
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Subject area: Business/Commerce
Year level: 9 & 10
Teams: 2-5 students
Key concepts
Key concepts addressed in this challenge include -
Solution ideation
Stakeholders/sponsors
Break-even
Revenue
Costs
Promotion (advertising),
and more!
How it works
If a class wants to participate, the teacher registers via the link below. This takes the teacher to a secure platform, where they will access the challenge materials (presentation slides and teacher notes).
The teacher will provide team names and details within the platform (there is no student login throughout the challenge).
The presentation slides and teacher notes provide guidance for teachers and students to progress through the challenge. Note: The challenge has been designed for flexible use; you could either run this in class, or teams can work independently, depending on your curriculum and time requirements.
Final submission is done by the teacher, on behalf of each student group. Submissions are recorded videos (2-5 minutes long). The videos are uploaded directly to the Ripyl platform. An external panel will judge submissions.
About the challenge
Students are provided the fictional scenario: Your school is getting ready to decide on what it will run as its next fundraiser. Student teams have been asked to help design an ideal event.
Teams will work through the following four steps as they design their ideal event:
Step 1: Choose your event type
Step 2: Understand your stakeholders
Step 3: Set your prices & calculate funds raised
Step 4: Advertise your event
Submission details
A recorded video of each team’s pitch is uploaded by their teacher for judging.
Final submission: 5:00pm AEDT Thursday 13th November 2025
Prizes*
Grand prize: 1-year Ripyl School Subscription + iPad (or equivalent) for teacher + $1,000 for the students on the winning team
Runner up: $500 for the students on the winning team
Third place: Lunch for the team, to the value of $100
Results will be announced on Wednesday 26th November 2025. The winning team will be contacted via their teacher.
To enter, you’ll be guided to our secure registration platform. Simply fill in your details using your school email address so we can verify your credentials and get you all set up!
