Join us for classes and workshops!
YouthBiz Workshops focus on the skills young entrepreneurs need to develop their businesses. We offer classes throughout the school year, September through April, on topics such as drafting a business plan, advertising your business, and creating market-ready products to inspire your next business idea. Plus, many workshops are free!
Young Americans uses a registration system for many of our YouthBiz Workshops. If this is your first class with us, click the yellow Register below. Then your first step will be to click “New Family Enrollment” to create a new account for your family. This will allow you to save your progress, make changes, and easily register for camps, classes, or workshops in the future. For questions, please contact us: 303-321-2265!
Current YouthBiz Workshops
Below are Workshops occurring in Spring, 2021. All Workshops are online. Click the Learn More button to read the workshop description and find other helpful information. We hope to see you at one or more workshops soon!
Wednesdays, April 7-21 4:30-5:30pm Ages: 12-18 (grades 6-12) Cost: $30 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology needed: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Do you have a business and you’re ready to make it official? We’ll go through a 3-step method to making your business official. You’ll learn about the ways to figure out if …
Wednesday, April 21 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 12-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Money, Money, Money!! In a business, there’s money coming in and money going out. As a business, if you make a certain amount, there are some taxes that your business needs to pay. …
Wednesday, April 7 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 12-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: To kick of the first session of the Let’s Make it Official series, we’ll be talking about how to come up with your business name, make sure that it hasn’t already been taken, …
Wednesday, April 14 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 12-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Let’s get down to it! Once you’ve taken all measures to secure a name, now it’s time to register your business…but how? There are so many business structures: LLC, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship. What …
Thursday, May 13 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 10-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: You’ve most likely heard this word “ecommerce” or “multi-vendor marketplace” within the last year or so. Well, in the first session of our Online Sales Workshop Series, we are going to take a …
Thursday, May 20 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 10-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Session 2 of our Online Sales Workshop Series kicks off by taking a look at this ecommerce website platform. Directly build your online store just the way you want it. Better than a …
Thursday, May 27 4:30-5:30 p.m. Ages: 10-18 Cost: $10 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology Requirements: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Etsy is one of the most used ecommerce marketplaces in the US. As of 2019,”the number of active sellers on the Etsy.com platform stood at 2.5 million and the site had 45.7 million …
Thursdays, May 13-27 4:30-5:30pm Ages: 10-18 (grades 3-12) Cost: $30 Format: Live Session facilitated by trained staff members Technology needed: tablet or laptop, internet connection, Google account Description: Since last year, entrepreneurs have had to shift the way they do business. If you were a brick and mortar, you ad to start learning ways to expand your business, and one …
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