Spring4th is your one-stop resource for everything you ever wanted to know about college, careers, owning your own business and getting what you want out of life.

Spring4th brings interactive workshops and presentations to your high school, college and community, many of which are free of charge. Workshop and presentation topics include college and career planning, entrepreneurship and real life. Spring4th also offers multi-year, before- and after- school programs like our Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP!), a 2-year business training program that helps students develop business ideas, write business plans, perfect their products, raise money, start and manage new businesses.

Spring4th Workshops

• Everybody Else’s Guide to Getting Into College
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Paying for College
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Internships, Apprenticeships & First Jobs*
• Everybody Else’s Guide to the Day After Graduation
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Careers that Don’t Suck
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business
• App Camp (College application workshop)*
• Job Camp (Internship, Apprenticeship and First Job application workshop)*
• M.I.T. (Millionaires in Training)*

Spring4th Presentations

• Everybody Else’s Guide to Maxing Out College
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Entrepreneurship
• Everybody Else’s Guide to Planning Your Career*

And our Careers Series:

• Everybody Else’s Guide to Careers in/involving Music, Entertainment, The Arts, Science, Motorsports, Technology & Engineering, Animals, Retail, Government, Hospitality and many more…

Career/Technical Education Programs

Young Entrepreneurs™ Program (YEP!)* – YEP! is an entrepreneurship training program for students age 14-18. YEP! students work with business and community leaders to understand the market, write business plans, develop products and services, raise startup money, start and manage a business. Students may join YEP! in their freshman year of high school and then remain in the program through graduation. Participating in a longer term program ensures that students will have enough time and support to actually create a real business that makes money and creates jobs.

Race for Learning* - Race for Learning is a supplemental education program that provides high school students an opportunity to learn new business and life skills, and to apply classroom learning in the exciting, fast-paced motorsports field. Students age 14-18 manage and operate a motorsports marketing firm and drag racing team, helping business professionals and staff to manage day-to-day business operations, plan and execute marketing promotions, coordinate staffing, conduct business meetings and other business-related tasks. Additionally, students will compete with one another to win challenges and earn trips to racing events around the country where they work directly with the racing team, teachers and/or tutors to complete learning experiments and activities involving math, physics, geometry, aerodynamics, mechanics, design, chemistry and computer programming.

Career Guides and Publications*

• Everybody Else’s Guide to Getting Into College (Must-have college preparation guide)
• everybodyelsesguidetocollege.com (online companion to the book)
• Spring4th.net (online college, career and life skills resource)
• Careersthatdontsuck.com (online career and job search resource focused on interesting careers you won’t find anywhere else–no traditional doctors, lawyers and farmers here)
• Career Guides (Downloadable career guides for every career field you can imagine)

Young Lions Career Network (YLCN) – The Young Lions Career Network is a career training and networking group for career-minded college students and newly employed young professionals. Young Lions meet regularly to discuss career challenges and accomplishments and share successes. Benefits include professional and business training and meet-and-greets with successful executives, entrepreneurs and community leaders.

Summer of Success (SOS) - Summer program that introduces students to social enterprises and nonprofit organizations that are making a difference in our global community. Students will learn about careers that allow them to do good and live well, and about scholarship and grant opportunities available for those who volunteer. There are two summer programs, one for students age 13-18, and another for college students age 18-22.

Corner Office – Corner office is an internship, apprenticeship and cooperative education program for students age 16-25. Benefits include gaining valuable job skills, earn money and recommendation letters.

In addition to our signature workshops, Spring4th offers a variety of useful tools and resources to help you plan your future.

Customizable Action Plans to improve your GPA and test scores, get great recommendation letters, beef up your application and increase your chances of admission to college by 100%!

• Financial Aid (Student loans and grants)
• Scholarships
• Admission Tests
• Career Guides
• Internships, Apprenticeships and Cooperative Education
• Everybody Else’s Guide to College blog (Latest college info, internships for minority students)

*Fees may apply