EPIC (Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers) is a youth entrepreneurship program that uses a proven method of teaching entrepreneurship to youth to increase resiliency and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. It helps middle school and high school students understand what it means to be an entrepreneur, empowering them to make positive change in their lives, communities, and the world.
Our Certificate program for middle and high school teachers and youth development professionals is offered in two formats: fully online (nine weeks) and hybrid (two weeks including two online sessions plus three days) onsite. You can earn a Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education from Babson College, the No. 1 school for entrepreneurship. This certifies you to teach our EPIC curriculum to youth. Scroll to the bottom of the page to learn more about the current program being offered.
Our upcoming certificate program is a hybrid online course with two live online sessions (February 25 & March 4) and three days on site (March 14, 15 & 16) at the Babson College Miami Campus. Live sessions will be held on Tuesdays held for two hours from 5–7 p.m. Eastern Time on February 25, 2025 and March 4, 2025. Apply here.
Live Online Session Dates:
In-Person Session Dates
Cost: $2,495
Discounts:
Email Youthimpactlab@babson.edu for more information and discount codes
EPIC is a great way to provide organization to our students’ ideas. It allows them to experiment and work in teams to build a proposal to create lasting social and economic impact in their preferred areas.”
During the program, you will become certified to teach EPIC to youth while experiencing our EPIC curriculum for yourself. This experience allows you to gain valuable pedagogical tools that strengthen your teaching practice. You will:
The EPIC curriculum allows students to understand business concepts like opportunity identification, idea generation, prototyping, and marketing, while concurrently introducing them to social entrepreneurship and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). Your students will:
EPIC balances entrepreneurial concepts with social-emotional skills, or “soft skills.” At Babson, we refer to these skills as power skills. This combination helps youth develop grit, resiliency, a growth mindset, social awareness, social entrepreneurial intention, critical thinking, and self-reflection skills that can:
Teaching entrepreneurship to youth via EPIC also develops young leaders who generate economic, social, and environmental value.
Schools and youth organizations have the option to license the EPIC curriculum so that certified teachers and youth leaders can help their students unlock their potential. For more information about licensing EPIC, email Dr. Beth Goldstein, Director, Youth Impact Lab.
While taking the Certificate program is a requirement for licensing the EPIC curriculum, you and your students benefit with or without licensing. The course increases your impact, understanding of entrepreneurial concepts, and ability to integrate these concepts into any subject or course. There is no requirement that educators who take this course commit to license or teach EPIC.
The EPIC curriculum can only be licensed to schools and youth education NGOs/Non-profits for internal non-commercial purposes. If you have any questions about this, please email the Youth Impact Lab.
