2025 Youth Business Camp
Location: UBC Vancouver
Dates: August 12–16, 2025
Format: 5-Day Immersive Residential Camp
Audience: Teenagers aged 13–18
Program overview
🌟 About YBC 2025
YBC2025 will take place at the University of British Columbia over five transformative days of immersive learning. Designed for aspiring young leaders, the camp integrates high-impact workshops, team-based challenges, and real-world simulations to explore topics in economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
Participants will engage in intensive brainstorming, hands-on case studies, and pitch sessions, while connecting with industry experts, startup founders, and university mentors. The program emphasizes critical thinking, collaboration, and communication in a dynamic and supportive environment.
All students will stay on campus with all-inclusive accommodation and meals provided by UBC, ensuring a safe, focused, and enriching experience.
🚀 What to Expect
- AI-powered Business Exploration
- Case Studies & Pitch Workshops
- Leadership Challenges & Debate Sessions
- Company Visits & Alumni Mentorship
- Final Pitch & Award Ceremony
Through real-world simulations, team-based problem solving, and direct engagement with business professionals and university mentors, participants will gain not only essential business knowledge but also the confidence to lead.
🏫 On-Campus Experience
YBC2025 is a fully residential program. Students will live and learn in UBC's inspiring campus environment with all-inclusive accommodation and meals provided. Round-the-clock supervision and a collaborative, multicultural atmosphere ensure both safety and connection.
🎯 Who Should Join?
YBC2025 is ideal for globally minded students who:
- Are curious about business and innovation
- Seek to improve their communication and leadership skills
- Thrive in collaborative, hands-on learning environments
- Want to build a strong portfolio for future university or career goals
📍Core Framework Consists of Six Key Modules
Module 1
Business + Research Powered by AI
Module 2
Startup/Case Study Project Practice
Module 3
Early-stage Startup Exploration
Module 4
Business Pitch & Debate
Module 5
Leadership Workshop
Module 6
Business Roadshow Competition
🌟 5-Day Growth Journey
🔹 Day 1 – AI Business Exploration
AI Business Research · Team Icebreaker · Group Challenge Workshop
🔹 Day 2 – From Ideas to Insights
Case Study · Project Kickoff · Company Visit · Alumni Sharing
🔹 Day 3 – Lead & Build
Leadership Challenge · Collaboration Workshop · Business Plan Architecture
🔹 Day 4 – Sharpen & Refine
Business Presentation & Debate · Business Plan Optimization · Alumni Mentorship
🔹 Day 5 – Pitch & Shine
Final Pitch · Award Ceremony · Graduation Celebration · Media Interviews
Why Ybc ?
Experience
Experience
Experience
The Youth Business Competition is your ticket to participating in global business competitions, gaining experience, and adding attractive extracurriculars to your resume.
Innovation
Experience
Experience
This competition offers an immersive learning style, with intensive entrepreneurial brainstorming, creating business models, and doing presentations.
Leadership
Experience
Leadership
In our model real-world scenario, you’d be able to learn financial knowledge from contemporary successful entrepreneurs, while raising your teamwork and leadership abilities.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question.
- Networking Opportunities: Business competitions provide an excellent opportunity for students to meet and interact with industry professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and other students from different institutions. This can lead to valuable connections and potential future job opportunities.
- Feedback and Mentorship: Competitions often provide feedback and mentorship from experienced judges, coaches, and industry professionals. This can help students improve their ideas, presentations, and overall business acumen.
- Prizes and Recognition: Many business competitions offer cash prizes, scholarships, or other recognition for the top performers. Winning a competition can be a valuable addition to a student's resume and help distinguish them from other job applicants.
- Personal Growth: Participating in a business competition can be a challenging and rewarding experience that pushes students to grow personally and professionally. It can help students build confidence, resilience, and critical thinking skills.
College admissions officers typically consider applicants' involvement in activities, awards, volunteer work, and other extracurriculars, which can demonstrate their interests and abilities in multiple areas. Participating in business competitions can showcase applicants' talent and potential in business and leadership, which can become an important factor in their successful college applications.
In addition, participating in business competitions can enhance applicants' leadership and innovation skills and demonstrate their abilities in teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. These are qualities that college admissions officers are interested in and can help applicants gain an advantage.
Yes, as long as you have the necessary presentation skills and logical knowledge, you may participate by going through our interview process. There is no requirement for knowledge and experience about Business Competitions, we host a platform for beginner learning and competitions. Through our event you can gain experience and develop interest in business cases.
Students get intensive learning and training, which can help them speedily develop their personal skills. The YBC can help you develop data analyzing, problem solving, team working, and presenting skills. Furthermore the YBC is a good example of future Business Competitions, and can help you determine whether you are fit for attending business schools.
Yes, we will offer training courses for business, entrepreneurship, presentations, and public speaking throughout the competition.
Yes. After YBC, we will offer mentors and training for those that are interested and will participate in other business competitions.
Click “Contact Us”, and fill out the contact form. We will reply within two business days.
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