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We believe in the power of social entrepreneurship to help young people change the world.
Young Change Agents is a not-for-profit social enterprise helping youth from all backgrounds see problems as opportunities through social entrepreneurship.
Young Change Agents for educators.
If young people are our future, educators will help shape that future.
We understand that educators are looking for effective solutions that can accommodate their existing demanding schedules.
Young Change Agents makes it easy for schools and teachers to introduce and embed entrepreneurial and design thinking.
In this video, educators who have been through our 4 stage capacity building program share their experience with Young Change Agents.
Welcome to the future of entrepreneurial education.
As a not for profit social enterprise, our technology is key to enabling us to achieve early and equitable access to entrepreneurial education at scale.
We’ve created the Entrepreneurial Learning Hub to support educators and young people to develop and apply their entrepreneurial mindset, skillset, and toolset.
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Entrepreneurial Learning Hub
Your digital classroom where students can easily document their learning and reflections, access learning and earn badges for their digital portfolios. Educators can access e-learning, review student work, track class progress and upgrade student badges.
Program Resources
Get access to everything you need to run entrepreneurial education and design thinking programs in your school.
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Professional Development
Sign up to one of our virtual information sessions to learn more about our programs, or enrol in a professional development course.
Programs.
Young Change Agents is a not for profit social enterprise focused on developing the mindset, skillset and toolset of youth aged 10 - 21. We do this through social entrepreneurship programs combined with educator capacity building, the amplification of youth ideas, and technology platforms that provide badging and ePortfolios.
We are equipping young people for their future careers and empowering them to create their own pathways. Have a look at some of our programs we offer below.
Impact Boss
Impact Boss offers students the opportunity to launch their very own social enterprise over the span of a semester or year. This hands-on experience immerses young people in real-world learning and engagement with genuine customers, bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Digital Boss
Digital Boss provides a real-world experience of running digital business - it's a unique opportunity for students to have a comprehensive experience of being an entrepreneur within a safe, educational environment. Students will go through the process of launching, managing, and closing a purpose-driven digital enterprise.
$20 Boss
$20 Boss is a free-to-access 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.
PlanetASchools
PlanetASchools provides a unique opportunity for young people to address one of the world's most pressing issues - the climate crisis! This program supports students as they tackle an environmental issue at their school, and learn about becoming climate consultants, whilst immersing themselves in the world of social enterprise.
Design Challenges
We run 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 - check out past and current challenges!
Lighting the Spark
Young Change Agents launched the 'Lighting the Spark' report - the culmination of an 18-month codesign process co-led by proud Larrakia leader Nicole Brown and Young Change Agents. Lighting the Spark has been co-designed with over 200 stakeholders led by proud Larrakia leader Nicole Brown in 2020 and is now available for schools to deliver within the schools and Indigenous communities.
"I came in with the mentality that I couldn't make a difference, but honestly I am leaving with the reality that I can."
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Partners and supporters
We'd like to thank our partners and supporters who enable us to bring our initiatives to as many young people as possible.
Young Change Agents is a registered charity, certified social enterprise and people and planet first verified organisation.
"Young Change Agents provides a rare educational experience because it does not merely ask students to observe and catalog the world, but rather, to mold it. After learning how the world operates in a conventional classroom, YCA helps answer the often unarticulated question that lingers in the back of many students' minds: 'now what are you going to do about it?"