Unlock Youth Potential through Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers (EPIC) is a youth entrepreneurship program that uses a proven method of teaching entrepreneurial thinking to youth to unlock their potential, increase their creative thinking skills, confidence, and resilience.
The program helps students understand what it means to be an entrepreneur, empowering them to make positive changes in their lives, communities, and the world.
Throughout the course, students discover that being an entrepreneurial leader requires more than learning how to develop a business or solution. In the first part of the course, they learn how to assess their abilities, passions, and strengths, and determine which ones they want to strengthen.
As they discover what inspires them, they will learn about the U.N. Global Goals, Babson’s methodology for learning to be an entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®, and how these connect to problems and opportunities in their local community. Once they have identified problems/opportunities that they individually care about, they will begin to work with a team to select one problem/opportunity and then collaborate to identify solutions.
As a team, students will conduct field research to understand the problem, using a human-centered design approach. They will develop prototypes and customer personas for their solution, deliver a Rocket Pitch to share with others, and become immersed in the important details of testing the feasibility of their solution. Their final deliverable is a team presentation of their social impact project.
Featured EPIC Topics Include:
- Entrepreneurship Education: Understanding Babson’s Award-winning Pedagogy: Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®
- Aligning the U.N. Global Goals to Identify Real-World Problems to Solve
- Embarking on Empathy Journeys in Your Community
- Envisioning a New Future: Ideation
- Understanding Customer Needs
- Entrepreneurial Leadership and Social Justice
- Prototyping & Testing Your Idea
- Designing Business Models to Facilitate Your Rocket Pitch
- Marketing Basics & Customer Personas
- Startup Budgets and Funding Your Project
- Building Engagement & Strong Teams
- Testing Feasibility
- Learning from Failure
License EPIC for Your School
Educators can license the EPIC youth entrepreneurship curriculum for their school or youth program after they have completed the Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education program. Certified teachers and youth leaders help students unlock their potential.
Each EPIC License Includes:
- One-year use of the EPIC curriculum from January 1–December 31 or July 1–June 30 of the calendar or fiscal year via Babson College’s learning management system, Canvas
- Access for a specified number of your students to participate in the EPIC course (the number of students depends on the license category you select, Basic or Premium)
- Unique Canvas classrooms with access for two certified teachers per classroom
- Choice of the English, Spanish, or Arabic language version of EPIC on Canvas for each class
- Access to our online Community of Practice for certified educators
- Access to our Educator Toolkit with additional material to support the educators’ teaching practices
The EPIC curriculum can only be licensed to schools and youth education NGOs/Non-profits for internal non-commercial purposes.