Just graduated highschool? Moving out on your own? You shouldn't stress about knowing how to do your taxes, cook spaghetti, or how to get a family doctor.
We're preparing you with practical life skills for life beyond the classroom.
Who We Are
Every year 40k students in BC graduate and face adulthood head-on. They don’t have the skills they need to succeed and face increased levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.
We’re helping graduating or newly graduated secondary school students overcome the fears of adulthood by teaching them practical life skills that the traditional school system falls short of. This revolutionary online program tailored for graduating high school students consists of a comprehensive textbook and online course that covers essential real-life skills.
Our platform not only bridges the gap, but it empowers young adults to navigate the challenges of the real world with confidence.
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In late 2019 in the smallest basement suite known to man, Founder Olivia Stedman found her self consistently pondering why her 15 years in the public school system hadn’t taught her the practical skills she needed to succeed as an adult. This included things like how to do her taxes, how to transfer her dental records (and get a new dentist!), how to sign a lease and pay a deposit, how to take notes in university, and so much more. Olivia values action and decided to begin developing a program that could be accessible to anyone, to learn the practical skills needed to succeed as a young adult.
Much of the learning we’ll do in our lifetime comes from experience, but BrainBox is meant to act as a foundation to the beginning of the rest of your life. We know we can’t teach you everything there is to know, but we hope we can help simplify some of the lesser known (but very important!) topics, and instill a sense of confidence.
Whether you’re reading the textbook, taking this course with your school, or you’ve signed up individually - we sincerely are rooting for your success as an individual. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us. Think we can add or change something in the course? Let us know below.
Enrol my classBrainBox Life Skills Education Inc., helps graduating or newly graduated secondary school students overcome the fears of adulthood by teaching them practical life skills that the school system falls short of. These life skills can be applied throughout daily life so that young adults feel more confident in entering the 'real' world.
This revolutionary online platform tailored for graduating high school students is a comprehensive textbook and online course that covers essential real-life skills often overlooked in traditional education. Once enrolled your dashboard will guide you through the course with readings from the e-book, video content, virtual activites, and quizzes.
We are building a community where young adults no longer feel left behind or let-down by their education system. Learners can return to this content throughout their adultlife for education on a vast range of topics. The program will provide seamless, interactive and tailored learning experiences, it also offers a community to link students up with real-world work experience in the field they are interested in through strategic community partnerships.
Our content is written by young people, for young people. Our team of editors educators, and educational endorsements allow the program and course content to be held to a high standard of accuracy, and effectiveness.
We are incredibly grateful to our sponsors and donors. You help us get this vital education into the hands of more British Columbians.
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If you get stuck on something during your course progress you can reach out to us using the support button in your course dashboard. If you are participating in the program through your school we recommend talking to your teacher with support on content specifics. We're always here to help so please don't hesitate to reach out!
We recommend testing out the skills you're learning in your everyday life. See if you can recall these skills on the spot and put them to use. Make sure to bookmark important topics that you want to come back to more easily. Talk to your friends about the things you've learned too, it's probably more useful than you think!
We're just getting started! We're working on creating an internship program where highschool students can get virtual positions with us to learn important skills in a variety of areas - once this program is ready you'll hear all about it online, in our newsletter, and on our site. In the meantime, we offer university application help for free - to access this service please send us an email. There may be a waitlist depending on need, so we'll get back to you asap! If you are a company that is looking into partnering with us on events or other opportunities, please email us!
Students earn rewards by completing the course, watching videos, doing activities, and answering quiz questions (along with other secret activities!). These tokens can be redeemed for real things in our rewards hub! The rewards hub is only accessible if you have purchased our full program, here you'll find things like athleisure, coffee gift cards, car wash gift cards, and more! We're always updating the rewards hub. Have something you'd love to see there? Are you a business who wants to sponsor our rewards hub? Email us!
Our founder and CEO, Olivia worked alongside an amazing group of top university students to write the core of the book. All of the information is directly cited to peer reviewed academic sources and government websites. Moreover we've had multiple editors review the book, and have endorsements from top financial organizations, and health leaders to confirm the accuracy and citations within the book. We are always updating and refreshing the content as the world changes. If you have any questions about specific sections, please email us.
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