Different opportunties for different stages.
We understand that educators and schools are at different stages of development in their entrepreneurial education.
To allow us to meet you where we can best serve your needs, we’ve categorised our offering into 3 stages based on where you’re at in your entrepreneurial education needs and providing a means for ongoing development and growth of entrepreneurial education in your school.
1. Programs.
We offer programs to suit your requirements. To help you get started and navigate our extensive programs, we’ve suggested our programs based on your situational circumstances.
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1.$20 BOSS PROGRAM
$20 Boss is a free-to-access national program that provides a tangible way of supporting students to learn, identify and talk about the skills they’re building.
$20 Boss supports students to solve a real problem and helps them better understand their relationship with money.
2.DESIGN CHALLENGE
Design thinking challenges for young people that focus on a specific theme or issue and take students through empathy, problem definition, ideation, validation, prototyping and presenting their early stage idea. We also run quarterly nation-wide design challenges.
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DISCOVERY
Discovery is our one-day "taster session" for students starting out with design thinking and social entrepreneurship.
Students will have the opportunity to map their community, define a problem, ideate solutions, create a value proposition, prototype and present their initial social enterprise concept for feedback!
Find out more
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DISCOVERY
Discovery is our one-day "taster session" for students starting out with design thinking and social entrepreneurship.
Students will have the opportunity to map their community, define a problem, ideate solutions, create a value proposition, prototype and present their initial social enterprise concept for feedback!
Find out more
2.EXPLORER
2.5 day "hackathon style" or 10 week workshop / program where teams identify problems within their communities then ideate, validate, prototype and pitch a social enterprise idea to a judging panel. Educators learn alongside students.
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1.SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN A BOX
This program launches a social enterprise within a school, providing a real-world experience of working in a venture for students.
RETAIL: Students are empowered to design products for the store, provided with digital "currency" and additionally to learn financial literacy and sustainability.
COFFEE CART: Student create and run a coffee-cart social enterprise learning skills across business and hospitality.
PLANET A.SCHOOLS: Students become environmental change agents, learning from experts and creating environmental impact that saves their school (and community) money in the process.
2.NAVIGATING THE LIFE OF A START UP
This is a real-world experience of the life of a startup where students go through the process of launching, managing and closing an enterprise.
It runs over two terms or a full year and provides an opportunity for students for community and industry engagement.
3.INDUSTRY INTRAPRENEURSHIP
This program is an opportunity for young people to experience solving real-world problems for companies across different industries.
Students are presented with a problem and use design thinking processes to develop, validate and prototype solutions.
4.BEYOND PROGRAMS
Beyond our programs, we invite you to consider our more in-depth solutions below and how they might integrate with your current programs.
2. Program pathways.
Our Program Pathways offer students the opportunity to engage with entrepreneurial education as they progress through school and beyond.
It integrates entrepreneurial opportunities throughout the curriculum (e.g. HSIE, D&T) to make it easier for educators to build into their approach.
Young people can also launch and run enterprises to apply and scaffold their enterprise skills.
Our development of program pathways has been a direct result of educators asking for a more integrated approach to one-off programs offerings that have limited impact on students.
Program pathways offer a unique opportunity for educators to grow entrepreneurial education in schools off the back of our successful programs as well as their own initiatives.
3. Model based approach.
Beyond the Program Pathways, the next evolution of our offering embeds entrepreneurial education holistically, progressing schools towards the level of excellence demanded in Entrepreneurial Schools.
YCA helps schools measure progress and map priorities against the four key pillars of an entrepreneurial school. An entrepreneurial school focuses effort on four key pillars:
Building an ecosystem of support for students and educators
Building school capacity to support entrepreneurial education
Creating learning pathways for students to scaffold their skills
Amplifying impact by sharing stories and success.
The entire student community benefits when entrepreneurial learning is embedded in a school.
YCA has developed tools to help schools easily assess their strengths and weaknesses against each key pillar, and plan their next steps. This tool highlights priority actions to help focus growth.
Central to this model approach, is our development of proprietary technology which will help scale our offering to as many schools as possible.
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Codesign your school strategy with your educators and young people to understand pain points and opportunities
Bringing parents to the table, building their understanding and activating them as volunteers/champions
Tapping into local business owners, social entrepreneurs and charities to identify opportunities for volunteering and problem exploration
Understanding the local universities and opportunities to connect and to strengthen educational pathways
Understanding how local council and industry are preparing for the future workforce and identifying opportunities for real-world problem exploration
Engagement with education bodies and other Govt representatives to find out what support is available and to bring them on your journey
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Building internal staff culture and knowledge to support entrepreneurialism
Creating an entrepreneurial learning strategy aligned to whole-of-school strategy
Building a supportive culture for entrepreneurialism within the school
Professional development for educators to equip them with the resources, knowledge, connections and confidence to deliver entrepreneurial learning
Creating systems & processes to provide scalable entrepreneurial learning and support
Training educators, young people, alumni, parents and ecosystem to mentor and support entrepreneurship at your school
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Ensure every student can access multi-touchpoint entrepreneurial education while at school
Integrate entrepreneurial opportunities throughout the curriculum (e.g. HSIE, D&T)
Provide opportunities for young people to apply their enterprise mindset, skillset and toolset to different opportunities
Provide opportunities for young people to actually launch and run enterprises (execution is 95% of the challenge!)
Scaffold enterprise skills throughout the multi-touch point learning e.g. finance, validation
Identify opportunities for young people to continue their entrepreneurial pathways beyond school
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Measure and track your strategy and share insights and the value it adds to your school
Make entrepreneurial pathways visible to young people and highlight the benefits to them
Capture student learning so they can demonstrate and articulate it to potential employers, ecosystem members and education bodies
Build young people's confidence and skills to speak about their learning and enterprises
Create crowdfunding campaigns, website pages and marketplaces to share student enterprises with the ecosystem and community
Capture and share student journeys and achievements through video and written case studies
