Beyond the classroom.Create real futures.
Project Create Enterprises (PCE) empowers students ages 16–21 to build marketable skills, earn industry-standard certifications, and gain real-world experience that prepares them for college, careers, and lifelong success.
Learning that moves beyond the classroom.Into experience. Into opportunity. Into the future.
A bridge between school, work, and what comes next.
PCE is a work-based learning and student enterprise program that connects students ages 14–22 to hands-on training, paid and unpaid work opportunities, and industry-standard certifications.
Students gain opportunities to explore careers, practice professional skills, discover their strengths, build confidence through real responsibility, and make more informed decisions about college, training, careers, and employment.
Built around students. Powered by partnership.
Schools create access. Businesses create exposure. Students turn both into skills, experience, confidence, and a stronger path forward.
Schools
Expand career exploration, work readiness, certifications, real-world projects, and work-based learning opportunities available to your students.
Businesses
Introduce students to real industries, careers, workplaces, and professional expectations through job exploration, job shadowing, work experiences, and employment opportunities.
Students
Explore careers, strengthen professional skills, gain practical experience, earn credentials, and build confidence for what comes next.
Career readiness is more than one class.
PCE brings together exploration, workplace skills, self-advocacy, education, experience, and credentials.
Job Exploration
Introduces students to a wide range of careers while helping them identify and pursue their interests and strengths.
Work Readiness Training
Builds essential skills in communication, teamwork, professionalism, time management, and workplace expectations.
Self-Advocacy & Life Skills
Helps students understand their rights, set goals, and build the confidence needed for independence and self-sufficiency.
Post-Secondary Planning & Education
Provides guidance on college, vocational, and career training opportunities.
Work-Based Learning & Employment
Identifies opportunities and assists students with work site tours, job shadowing, and possible paid work experiences in their local community.
Industry Certifications
Helps students earn valuable, in-demand credentials that make them more employable and career-ready.
Students need a place to practice becoming professionals.
PCE connects instruction to real responsibilities, real workplaces, real projects, and the professional habits students will carry forward.
Explore interests and career possibilities.
Prepare with workplace and life skills.
Practice through hands-on and work-based experience.
Progress with clearer goals, credentials, and confidence.
The goal is not just participation. It is momentum.
Develop confidence, independence, and leadership skills.
Improve academic performance and school attendance.
Build marketable skills and earn industry-standard certifications.
Gain real-world work experience and explore career interests.
Access opportunities to earn financial incentives while preparing for the future.
Bring PCE to your students.
Expand career exposure, work readiness, work-based learning, credentials, and access to real-world opportunity. Tell us about your students, your priorities, and the pathways you want to strengthen.