Structured courses
Ready-to-run experiential pathways with modules, prompts, projects, and credentials.
Personalized, experiential learning for universities
Prepare students to think critically and build solutions in an AI-shaped world.
EPIC gives students personalized guidance, experiential courses, real-world projects, and a connected community—strengthening creativity, judgment, and problem-solving while making growth visible to faculty.
Critical thinkingCreativityJudgment
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Your next step: define a problem worth solving.
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Problem DiscoveryCourse + EPIC Community
AI
Continue with CASE CoachGuided problem-framing session
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Stakeholder EvidenceNext module
CASE snapshot72Developing
Priority: stakeholder agency6 learners · Review evidence →
Powered by Ycenter’s field-tested experiential-learning practice.
13+years
100+university partners
15K+learners reached
EPIC Experiential Platform for Innovation and Creativity.
A connected environment where students learn by doing, receive personalized guidance, collaborate with a cohort, and turn ideas into evidence of capability.
A connected learning system—not another chatbot.
Students move through one designed experience while faculty gain visibility into participation, applied work, coaching conversations, and the areas where learners need support.
AI coaching
Purpose-built coaches guide specific learning activities without replacing learner ownership.
Course community
EPIC-branded spaces connect content, peer learning, cohort communication, and project sharing.
Faculty insight
See class priorities, learner evidence, and practical next actions through PSQ-informed rubrics.
Ready-to-run university courses
Three pathways. Clear modules and outcomes.
Faculty can review the learning journey before choosing a course. Each pathway combines guided modules, specialized coaches, applied projects, community, assessment, and credentials.
01Entrepreneurship & InnovationFrom problem discovery to venture proofVenture-building pathway
Problem discoveryStakeholder evidenceSolution designBusiness-model testingPrototype buildingPitch and proof
Student takeaway: A validated venture concept, working prototype, and pitch-ready evidence portfolio.
02Social Impact & SustainabilityFrom systems understanding to impact designImpact-building pathway
Systems mappingUnited Nations SDGsStakeholder agencyImpact challengeSocial entrepreneurshipSocial enterprise modelsBusiness models for impactUnintended consequencesIntervention designAssumption testingImpact measurement
Student takeaway: An evidence-based social venture or intervention, a defensible impact model, and an unintended-consequences analysis.
03Design Thinking for InnovationFrom empathy to tested conceptsCreative problem-solving pathway
Empathy researchChallenge reframingIdea generationConcept selectionRapid prototypingTesting and reflection
Student takeaway: A tested solution concept, prototype, and clear design rationale.
Inside EPIC Labs · One of many specialized coaches
Meet CASE—designed to make students think before they solve.
CASE helps students break large, complex problems into smaller solvable parts. It questions assumptions, prevents premature solution-jumping, and guides reasoning without doing the work for them.
CASE · Problem framingEvidence coachIdeation coachBusiness-model coachPitch coach
CASE
CASE CoachProblem-framing coach
Guided practiceCASE guides the reasoning. The student owns the answer.
Learn. Build. Prove—and take the proof with you.
EPIC connects personalized coaching to applied work, AI-assisted assessment, and shareable micro-credentials rather than treating each experience as a disconnected tool.
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Learn
Think with specialized AI coaches
Guided conversations surface assumptions, reasoning, reflection, and evidence while the student remains in control.
Conversation becomes evidence
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Build + assess
Demonstrate capability through real work
Coached reasoning, final project artifacts, and reflection are combined through PSQ’s rubric-informed assessment.
72/100 illustrative PSQ
03 · ProveEvidence verified
✓PSQ
EPIC AI micro-credential
Applied Problem Solver
Entrepreneurship & Innovation · Issued after assessed coaching, reflection, and applied project work.
Coached reasoningEvidence captured
Applied projectFaculty reviewable
PSQ assessmentRubric-informed
Proof students can take with them
For faculty and program leaders
Move from completion data to learning evidence.
EPIC helps faculty identify patterns in student reasoning, inspect the underlying evidence, and decide where a teaching intervention may be useful.
✓See cohort-level patterns without losing the student work behind them.
✓Review coached conversations, artifacts, and rubric-informed feedback.
✓Turn insights into a discussion, activity, or personalized follow-up.
CASE Coach · Problem Definition · Demo cohortEvidence available
Student evidence
“I want to build an app for first-year students, but I have not yet determined whether workload or isolation is the primary cause.”
Cohort pattern
6 of 24 students selected a solution before validating the problem.Pattern detected across coached work
Faculty action → Review evidence or assign a problem-framing activity
AI-powered, rubric-informed assessment
Completion tells you who finished. PSQ shows how students are thinking.
Problem Solution Quotient analyzes evidence from guided coaching conversations, student artifacts, and reflection to produce dimension-level scores, actionable feedback, and faculty-reviewable evidence.
Example student snapshotCASE · Final evidence
72/100Overall PSQ snapshot generated from rubric-scored evidence.
Creativity72
Empathy68
Critical thinking78
Problem framing74
Evidence use66
Reflection73
Illustrative snapshot. Production scores remain linked to defined rubric criteria and inspectable supporting evidence.
Start with one course, one semester, and a real cohort.
Begin with a product-led EPIC pilot, then add curriculum integration or a live Ycenter learning experience when it supports the program.
One EPIC course · one semester · up to 50 students
$70 per student when all 50 seats are used. Additional cohorts, courses, and integrations are scoped separately.
Book a university demoOptional live experience
AI Literacy & Idea Building Workshop
Add a live two-hour session where students use AI to investigate a real problem, develop an idea, and create a working prototype.
Questions universities ask
Bring EPIC into the classroom—without extra hassle.
EPIC fits inside an existing course, program, or workshop. We help faculty connect the pathways, coaches, community, and feedback to their curriculum—adding personalized, experiential learning without requiring a course redesign or another complicated system to manage.
Why not simply let students use ChatGPT or Claude?
ChatGPT and Claude are general-purpose assistants, designed to provide answers across almost any topic. EPIC coaches are purpose-built for specific learning activities and designed to make students think rather than do the thinking for them. They ask questions, challenge assumptions, and guide reflection without completing the work. Students stay in control, while faculty gain a structured view of the learning process.
Does EPIC replace faculty or our LMS?
No. Faculty keep ownership of teaching and academic decisions. EPIC is the experiential learning and coaching layer: structured pathways, specialized coaches, a branded community, applied work, and faculty-facing evidence.
What does a university pilot require?
Students need a browser-enabled computer and reliable internet; no software installation or coding experience is required. EPIC provides cohort access, a short faculty onboarding, and a guided launch plan.
What is PSQ, and how should faculty use it?
PSQ stands for Problem Solution Quotient. It is EPIC’s AI-powered, rubric-informed assessment framework for turning evidence from coached activities, student work, and reflection into dimension-level scores and feedback that faculty can inspect and use formatively.
Can we bring our own course or curriculum?
Yes. We work directly with faculty members and program leaders to integrate EPIC’s coaches, activities, community, and feedback into their existing program content. Universities can also begin with one of EPIC’s complete pathways and adapt the experience over time.
University demos
See the student and faculty experience together.
Walk through the learner journey, CASE Coach, course community, PSQ-informed feedback, and faculty dashboard in one focused demo.