Important Dates

Application Deadline:
March 11, 2027

The program runs fully online weekly on Wednesdays from March 17, 2027 until Wednesday, April 21, 2027.

Live online sessions will be held Wednesdays from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm Eastern Time (6:00pm to 8:30pm EEST) and will last approximately two and a half hours. 

Please check our website for all live session dates.

Cost

$1,995 USD
per registrant

Location

Live Online Sessions:
Zoom

Contact

Certificate Overview

The Babson Youth Impact Lab’s Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education Program provides middle and high school teachers and youth development professionals with the content and pedagogical approach to help your students become entrepreneurial leaders in their communities.

The professional development program will be offered as a 6-week fully online program beginning March 2027. The course will begin on Wednesday, March 17, 2027, and close on Wednesday, April 21, 2027.

Participants will graduate on April 21, receive their Certificates, and be awarded Digital Badges.

This professional development certificate program is anchored in Babson’s EPIC (Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers) Youth curriculum which teaches young people Babson’s renowned Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® mindset. EPIC helps students develop the skills to understand why the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development matter and inspires them to apply their learning to address a local or regional problem connected to a Global Goal they care about most.

During the six-week online certificate program, you will:

• Learn how to empower young changemakers through entrepreneurship
• Receive coaching on how to deliver key entrepreneurship concepts to your students
• Get an educators’ toolkit that supports your ability to teach entrepreneurship
• Improve student success in your classroom/program
• Make a significant impact on future generations’ efforts towards a more equitable and sustainable world
• Participate in asynchronous and synchronous teaching through Babson’s online learning      management system and weekly live webinars (2.5 hours)
• Learn individually and through peer engagement with a team comprised of peers from around the world
• Create an entrepreneurial lesson plan to apply in your classroom
• Become a lifetime member of a Community of Practice, where you can exchange ideas and insights with your peers

Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate from Babson’s Youth Impact Lab, a digital badge, 40 professional development points (PDPs), and continuing education credits as approved by the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Your school or youth organization will have the option to license the EPIC curriculum so certified teachers and youth leaders can help their students unlock their potential. In addition, you will become members of the Youth Entrepreneurship Education Community of Practice – a network of like-minded youth educators and youth development professionals.

Taking this course is a requirement for licensing the EPIC curriculum, however, the course is designed so that you can derive value, gain core skills, increase your understanding of entrepreneurial concepts and learn how to integrate them into how you teach any other 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 youthimpactlab@babson.edu

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