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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.

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Projects. Our collective impact.

AromaKey

Relieving stress for young people on the go

Crowdfunding

Wollongong

$2,000 Pledged

Fundraising has ended.

Cerebrum

Improving mental health through plants

Crowdfunding

Sydney

$3,100 Pledged

Fundraising has ended.

Pidget Fencil

Relieving stress in the classroom for young people!

Crowdfunding

Macarthur - NSW

$1,015 Pledged

Fundraising has ended.

Link Lamp

Connecting people through light to relieve loneliness

Startup

Wollongong

Glass Box

Through personal experience in our friendship groups, we have seen there is not enough support for mental health in our region. We aim to change this.

Startup

Southern Highlands

BREAKING BARRIERS

We don't believe that young children should have to choose between princesses and Spiderman when purchasing everyday items.

YINC

Rockhampton

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Latest initiatives around the country.

Digital Boss

Digital Boss for Schools provides a real-world experience of running a 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 and managing a purpose-driven digital enterprise. At the end of the program, they will then decide whether to close it or continue on as an independent business.

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Future of Finance Youth Design Challenge

How might we see money differently? The Future of Finance Youth Design Challenge is a free online design thinking challenge that encourages youth to consider how they can reimagine the future of finance. It empowers youth to identify problems, reframe them as opportunities, develop solutions, and create prototypes. Young people aged 10-21 will also be able to enter the challenge and be in the draw to win prizes to help them develop their ideas further.

Entrepreneurial Learning Hub Licence

Our Entrepreneurial Learning Hub Educator Licence gives schools access to both our free and paid resources and events designed to help you embed entrepreneurial education into your school. Once you complete your training modules, you can lead programs at your school or book a co-facilitated program at a discounted rate!

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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.

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Train the trainer program

Young Change Agents are passionate supporters of Australian teachers and we have co-designed with educators a 4-stage teacher capacity building process.

YINC

Students are empowered to bring their ideas to life with mentoring and masterclasses. This is a youth focused program that mirrors adult-based incubator programs in content and style. We also provide opportunities for young people to build their prototypes and crowdfund to launch their 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.

Explorer

Our stage one social entrepreneurship program is a "hackathon style" workshop 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.

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.

"I came in with the mentality that I couldn't make a difference, but honestly I am leaving with the reality that I can."

Youth Participant

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Our partners

We'd like to thank our partners who enable us to bring our initiatives to as many young people as possible.

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"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?"

We believe in the power of social entrepreneurship to help young people change the world.
Young Change Agents is a nationwide social enterprise helping youth from all backgrounds see problems as opportunities through social entrepreneurship.

Young Change Agents for educators.