Our Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Teaching Practice for K-12 teachers and youth development professionals empowers you to cultivate entrepreneurial skills like creative thinking, resilience, flexibility, innovation, idea generation, collaboration, and agility when teaching youth entrepreneurship. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report highlights these skills as critical for future success.
By empowering K-12 teachers with the skills, confidence, and knowledge to teach youth entrepreneurship and model entrepreneurial thinking inside and outside their classrooms, educators can cultivate an innovative school-wide culture. Picture entrepreneurial thinking seamlessly integrated into every subject, from fifth-grade math to high school foreign language classes. Teachers can now create a ripple effect throughout the K-12 educational landscape, fostering future entrepreneurial leaders.
Our Certificate is currently offered live online for six weeks. Participants earn a Certificate in Youth Entrepreneurship Education from Babson College, ranked the No. 2 college in America (The Wall Street Journal, 2025) and the No. 1 school for entrepreneurship (U.S. News & World Report). This certificate provides participants with confidence in teaching youth entrepreneurship to cultivate entrepreneurial classroom environments.
Our upcoming certificate program consists of six live online sessions teaching teachers and youth development professionals how to incorporate a youth entrepreneurship curriculum in their classrooms. The program will be held on Wednesdays for 2½ hours, from 5–7:30 p.m. Eastern Time from November 5–December 10, 2025.
| Live Online Session Dates | |
|---|---|
| Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
| Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
| Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
| Wednesday, November 26, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
| Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
| Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | 5–7:30 p.m. ET |
Cost: $1,995
| Discounts | |
|---|---|
| $100 | AISH Members |
| 10% | Babson Collaborative Members |
| $100 | NEASC Members |
| $100 | Tri-Association Members |
Email youthimpactlab@babson.edu for more information and discount codes.
When an entire faculty is trained in the same entrepreneurial methodology, it creates a unified language of innovation that empowers students to be brave and creative in their learning. This collective approach not only deepens student understanding but also cultivates a culture where taking risks, solving real-world problems, and thinking critically are the norm, not the exception.”
Teaching entrepreneurship to the youth is one of the most powerful ways to unlock their potential, helping them discover talents, embrace responsibility, and become changemakers in their communities and beyond. As educators, we have the privilege of guiding students to develop both professionally and personally, equipping them with the tools to shape a better world.”
Entrepreneurship education transforms both students and teachers through project-based learning that goes beyond knowledge into action and impact. Students become problem-solvers, engaging with college-level thinking while still in high school, while teachers grow as learners themselves. Together, they build a community ready to lead and thrive in the 21st century.”
During our program that teaches educators how to teach youth entrepreneurship, you will learn how to create an entrepreneurial culture in your classroom while concurrently securing a Certificate that allows you to teach the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers (EPIC) curriculum. You will experience key elements of our entrepreneur curriculum for youth, and develop an entrepreneurial lesson plan for your classroom. This experience allows you to gain valuable pedagogical tools that strengthen your teaching practice and help you gain confidence to think and act as an entrepreneurial leader and educator within your classroom. The certificate will provide you with the tools to bring to your classroom for teaching youth entrepreneurship.
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EPIC, our entrepreneur curriculum for youth, allows students interested in youth entrepreneurship education to understand and experience powerful life skills like opportunity identification, idea generation, prototyping, and collaboration, while concurrently introducing them to social entrepreneurship and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).
