Find Your Path Competition!
5 questions. 5 winning classes. 5 big prizes.
Where could your STEM path lead?
Future You invites Years 3–7 classrooms across Australia to take part in the 2026 Find Your Path Competition.
Explore five STEM careers, crack the clues, and imagine where your own STEM path could lead.
It’s FREE to enter and EASY to run. T&Cs apply
How to play
Discover five people working in STEM careers.
Use the clues and Future You Pathfinder posters to find the answers.
All five questions are available from 13 October. Submit your class’s answers any time before 13 November.
Key dates
12 October 2026
Competition opens and all five questions are released.
13 November 2026
Competition closes 5.00pm AEDT. Submit your class’s answers by this date.
End of Term 4
Winners announced.
What could your class win?
- A veggie garden for your school valued at $978.00
- A 20-min session with Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith
- A class set of magazine
- Every student entering gets a personalised certificate
Why a veggie patch?
This year’s veggie patch prize has a special connection to the 2026 school theme, Seeds of Science: nurturing science for all.
The theme encourages students to explore how ideas take root, grow, and spread through curiosity, inquiry, and shared learning. It also links nicely to one of our exciting Pathfinders, Thomas, a plant scientist working on ways astronauts can grow plants in space (psst, this might be an important clue to help you answer one of our questions!).
A veggie garden gives your students a chance to keep that learning growing.
They can plant, observe, test, measure, and discover how STEM helps us understand the world around us.
A session with a professional star-gazer!
Is your class full of curious thinkers who love asking big questions? A session with Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith would inspire them to keep exploring, learning, and imagining what is possible. Students could ask her what astronomers do during the day (when we can't see the stars), what her favourite thing in space is to study, and what skills they should learn if they want to work in space... or any other job in STEM. Â
Meet the Pathfinders
The five questions showcase Future You Pathfinders working across different STEM careers.
They show students that STEM can take you in many directions.
From the science of agriculture to exploring extreme environments, solving problems and working with technology, each Pathfinder has taken a different path.
Who will your class discover?
Ready to find your path?
Get your class together, download the Pathfinder posters and start exploring.
Enter the competition
FAQs
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The competition is open to teachers, educators, homeschool educators, and other adults leading a learning group for students in Years 3-7 across Australia. Entries must be submitted by a person aged 18 years or over on behalf of their class or educational group.
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Yes. Homeschool groups are welcome to participate. An adult educator, or parent/carer aged 18 years or over must submit the entry on behalf of the students.
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No. The Find Your Path Competition is completely free to enter.
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No. Entries are submitted by a teacher, educator, or parent/carer on behalf of a class or educational group.
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Entries close at 5.00pm (AEDT) on 13 November 2026.
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The answers can be found by exploring the Future You Pathfinder posters and Pathfinder profiles featured on the competition website.
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No. Prizes are not transferable, exchangeable or redeemable for cash.
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No. The prizes awarded are fixed and cannot be substituted for alternative products or services.
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No. The prize package includes a specified raised-bed veggie patch selected by Future You.
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Yes. Each veggie patch comes with 1 x large raised garden bed and cover, 1 x stand to fit the garden bed, 2 x 50L bags of perlite, 1 x 1 Litre booster, and 1 x organic seed pack with easy-to-grow seasonal varietals.
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Winning classes will be notified on 23 November 2026.
- Careers with STEM: Primary class sets will be sent before the end of Term 4 where possible.
- Veggie patch prizes will be delivered during Term 1, 2027.
- The Lisa Harvey-Smith session will be arranged directly with winning schools.
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Prize winners must respond within two business days. If a winner does not respond within that timeframe, the prize may be awarded to another entrant.
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Yes. Every student who participates can receive a Find Your Path certificate.
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A certificate template will be emailed after an entry is submitted. Teachers, educators, or parents/carers can print the certificate and add each student's name and chosen STEM career.
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The certificate includes spaces for students' names and the STEM career they would like to explore. These details are completed by the teacher, educator, or parent/carer before presentation.
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Yes. Teachers may submit entries on behalf of multiple classes, provided each class submits its own entry.
Future You is hosted at 91É«ÇéƬ Sydney and co-funded by the Optiver Foundation and the Faculties of Science at 91É«ÇéƬ Sydney and The University of Sydney.
