EPIC · Challenge-based

Real business problems, solved by emerging talent.

Employer-provided innovation challenges rooted in real business needs. Student teams tackle them, and employers spot talent in action. A U.S. Chamber Foundation program, delivered by Emerge.

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What it is

Where talent shows what it can do.

EPIC connects employers and students around real challenges. Employers pose a genuine business problem; student teams research, build, and pitch solutions.

Everyone wins: students gain applied experience and real exposure, while employers surface fresh thinking and spot promising talent in action.

Student teams presenting their solutions at an EPIC challenge

Why EPIC works

Applied learning with a real audience.

Real challenges

Problems come straight from employers’ actual business needs.

Talent in action

Employers evaluate students by what they create, not a CV.

Fresh thinking

Student teams bring new perspectives to real problems.

Backed by the U.S. Chamber Foundation

A national program framework, delivered locally by Emerge.

Proof

See it in the real world.

EPIC

Students solved a real challenge — and presented it at the U.S. Chamber in D.C.

Through EPIC, students at Oakland Schools Technical Campus – Southwest helped the Oakland Schools Education Foundation connect with local businesses — and earned a spot presenting at the EPIC National Convening in Washington, D.C.

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