The economy these students are entering rewards one skill above all others: the ability to find a problem worth solving and actually build something around it. The ambition is there. The structured education isn't keeping up. The Foundry is built to close that gap.
Student demand has shifted. Nearly half of Australian senior-school students surveyed in 2025 said they want to start their own business at some point, up sharply from a third just two years earlier. The cultural conversation around entrepreneurship has moved into schools whether the curriculum is ready or not.
The classroom hasn't caught up. Existing offerings tend to fall into two buckets: theoretical business-studies coursework with no built artefact, or one-off enrichment programs that don't survive contact with a real timetable. Neither produces a student who has built something.
What's actually missing is structured operator experience. Not a textbook, not an enrichment day. Ten weeks of structured making, with the same rigour as any other senior subject, and the same posture of seriousness students give to their other subjects. That's what The Foundry is.
We built the program from the operator's side of the desk, not the academic's. Every module ends with a deliverable a student can put in front of a real founder and defend. By Module 10 they're pitching a built thing to a real panel, with the network they have made along the way watching from the front row.