Arthur M. Blank School
The Blank School engages Babson community members and leads research to create entrepreneurial leaders.
EPIC (Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers) is a youth entrepreneurship program using 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.
Through our online, 9-week Certificate program, middle and high school teachers and youth development professionals 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.
“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.”
– Gerardo Arias Fernandez
High School Teacher
Lincoln School in Costa Rica
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.
The next certificate program is scheduled for October 17, 2022.
If you are interested, please click the apply button below and complete an application form.
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, please click here to contact our Youth Impact Lab Director, Dr. Beth Goldstein.
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.
Here you can find additional opportunities to learn:
Watch a brief video on "Why Youth Entrepreneurship Education Matters"