Description

What skills do you need to succeed in the future of agriculture and agribusiness?

Designed for VCE VM students, this hands-on program explores innovation, sustainability, and enterprise through the lens of modern agriculture. Through industry engagement, practical activities, and collaborative challenges, students develop technical, employability, and workplace skills while investigating emerging technologies, clean energy, and agricultural innovation.

Available as a 3–6 day program, students explore the Yarra Ranges agricultural industry through site visits, workplace documentation, environmental testing, safety investigations, and enterprise development. Working in teams, they analyse industry challenges, develop innovative solutions, and create a marketable agri-business, product, service, or tourism experience that is prototyped and pitched to an audience.

The program explicitly supports VCE VM Work Related Skills outcomes, including planning, safe work practices, collaboration, communication, technology use, and presentation of solutions in authentic workplace contexts.

Experience 1: Agriculture Industry Explorer
Explore careers, technologies, and future opportunities across the agriculture sector.

Experience 2: Safe Workplaces
Investigate farm safety, biosecurity risks, and workplace responsibilities.

Experience 3: Farming and Financial Literacy
Collect and analyse environmental data through soil, water, and field testing
.
Experience 4: Sustainability and Marketing
Explore sustainable practices, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and create a brand using industry-standard design tools.

Experience 5: Agri-Enterprise and Innovation
Design and prototype an innovative product, service, or experience while applying branding and entrepreneurial thinking.

Experience 6: Pitch with Impact
Deliver a professional pitch showcasing your farm, product, or business idea and reflect on your learning journey.