Universities teach students what they need to know. WISC challenges them to prove they can apply it.
University teams enter a live, immersive strategy simulation and compete against students from other universities. There is no cost to the university or its students.
Strategy · Leadership · Negotiation · Communication · Financial management · Innovation · Teamwork · Decision-making under pressure
What happened at RMIT
RMIT University was the first university to take on the challenge. Students were chosen as Lords and Ladies, founded realms and ran an economy under King William. Every round, each leader stood before the King to report what they had committed to, and what they had actually delivered.
Coming competitions
South East Asia Invitational
Australia Inter-University Strategy Challenge
South East Asia Inter-University Strategy Challenge
What the academics said
“It’s hard to deliver a class for three hours. It’s been more than three hours and they’re still engaged and energetic. That is absolutely fabulous.”
Dr Alvedi Sabani
Co-founder, RMIT GamifiED Hub
RMIT University
“Tangibility really gets the students starting straight away. When we give them conceptual ideas and challenges, it takes a while for them to form in their heads.”
Dr Moh Farah
Deputy Director, Technology Initiative
College of Business and Law, RMIT University
“Although it’s the semester break, a lot of students have turned up voluntarily to participate.”
Dr Nirav Parikh
Senior Lecturer, Finance
RMIT University
What the students said
“I think everyone should experience this once in a lifetime.”
Student, RMIT University
“It was amazing. It was very insightful, unexpected.”
Student, RMIT University
“If we had five more rounds, we would have gone way further than where we went.”
Student, RMIT University
Twenty years of learning by doing
WISC was created by Clinton Swaine, founder of Frontier Trainings and creator of the Realms of Plantasia simulation.
For more than twenty years, Clinton has designed and run experiential learning programmes around the world, with students, entrepreneurs, executives and organisations: leadership, strategy, communication, negotiation, teamwork and decision-making, learned by doing. The simulation at the heart of WISC has been played more than 175 times internationally.
WISC is the next stage of that work: an international arena where university students represent their institutions, compete against their peers and find out how well they can apply what they have learned.
Register your university’s interest
Tell us who you are and which competition interests you. Clinton or a member of the Frontier Trainings team will be in touch personally. There is no cost to the university or its students.