YouScience® Brightpath is the only aptitude-based guidance platform that leverages data and artificial intelligence to help individuals identify their aptitudes, validate their skills, and get matched with educational and career pathways.
Help students prepare for academic and career success
Brightpath helps students discover their natural aptitudes, provides reporting that guides decisions, and helps plan the path to graduation.
Bring the real world into all students’ education journey
Brightpath is optimized to engage students using real-world applications, settings, and employer experiences.
Enable students to continue learning beyond high school
Brightpath helps students explore careers, courses, educational opportunities, and pathways.
Help students prepare for academic and career success
Brightpath helps students discover their natural aptitudes, provides reporting that guides decisions, and helps plan the path to graduation.
Bring the real world into all students’ education journey
Brightpath is optimized to engage students using real-world applications, settings, and employer experiences.
Enable students to continue learning beyond high school
Brightpath helps students explore careers, courses, educational opportunities, and pathways.
Seven unique solutions. One platform. Infinite possibilities.
Aptitude & Career Discovery
Discover interests and aptitudes to create personalized post-secondary pathways.
Education & Career Plan
Empower educators with an end-to-end platform that connects education with career development.
Industry Certifications
Quantify student knowledge and skills through industry-recognized certifications.
Education Connections
Connect students with educational institutions based on interests and aptitudes.
Work-Based Experiences
Streamline management of work-based learning for educators to optimize student experiences.
Career Connections
Connect students with regional employers to gain real-world work experience.
Insights & Analytics
Generate reports using real-time data and analytics to measure student and program success.
What’s included
New for the 2023-2024
academic year
Artificial intelligence-enabled career exploration and recommendations
Our solutions leverage proprietary AI to help learn from and improve student recommendations, giving students better information so they can make smarter decisions about their own path.
Graduation planning
Course planning
The new Course Planner helps students plan for graduation by helping them visualize what courses they want to take in high school. It allows students to create a four-year plan for graduation.
Resume builder
Our new Resume Builder helps students to create a professional resume that can be used for employment, college application, apprenticeships, or internships. It is optimized to help students with limited experience demonstrate value by combining performance measures of aptitudes and skills to both current knowledge and career potential.
Regulatory compliance (coming soon)
Counselors can track student activities to ensure they have met grade-level activities and state requirements.
Enhanced academic advising and reporting
CTE pathway recommendation algorithm
YouScience gives students and faculty the ability to align a student’s CTE pathway with their aptitudes, interests, and career goals. We are making it easier for students to make better decisions by bringing career recommendations, certification opportunities, post-secondary opportunities, and employer jobs front and center in one place. It is more interactive and designed with students in mind.
Student summary report
The new one-page Student Summary Report makes it easier for you to advise students without compromising the experience. Using the simplified one-page summary you are able to guide students to better decisions faster and more efficiently, improving results and allowing you to serve more students.
Aggregated reporting
YouScience empowers leaders with aggregated reporting across products and student profiles. This makes it easy for education leaders to create and share district-level reporting to better understand and evaluate the schools and students in their regions and provide appropriate support.
Parent portal (coming soon)
The Parent Portal is a new feature that gives parents the ability to access their student’s career guidance and certification results to better collaborate on graduation and post-graduation planning.
New for the 2023-2024
academic year
Integrated work-based learning platform designed to bring the real world into the education journey
As the first education-to-career platform, Brightpath connects education with industry—enabling skill acquisition and growth, real-world experience, industry-recognized certifications, and more.
Post-secondary planning
Flexible assessment platform
Modernizes our assessment platform to make it easier for teachers to administer more compliant, and rigorous tests. Through the end-to-end Brightpath platform, skill certifications for secondary schools will be readily available and easily accessible.
Access to all certifications
It will be easier to see and report all certification activity by class, school, or district.
Resume builder
Our new Resume Builder helps students to create a professional resume that can be used for employment, college application, apprenticeships, or internships. It is optimized to help students with limited experience demonstrate value by combining performance measures of aptitudes and skills to both current knowledge and career potential.
Optimize your employer engagement
Enhanced career matching algorithm
Through skills, aptitudes, and interests we help students find their best-fit employment opportunities. Results are confidentially shared with CTE faculty to assist in placing students more effectively in WBL opportunities.
Integrated career and educational exploration
Interactive dashboard designed to make it easier for students to explore careers that are best matched to their aptitudes to make better decisions about their future.
Industry-rated standards behind exams
Employers can now impact and rate standards, which increases industry confidence in YouScience exams and helps students find increased value in attaining certifications. Allows CTE leaders to fulfill national and state requirements for local industry feedback.
Employer connectivity and links to WBL opportunities
Students will have greater visibility of work-based learning opportunities provided by their school. Related WBL opportunities will be featured while exploring careers or after completion of certification exams.
New for the 2023-2024
academic year
Enhanced features to enable students to continue their learning beyond high school
Our solutions help students explore careers, courses, educational opportunities, and pathways.
Crafting a college plan has never been easier
College-specific landing page
Each college can create a customized page specific to its focus and opportunities. Students with a selected college will be presented with a more focused experience around career and major selection.
College application and financial aid tracking
Students can track key milestones towards graduation and high education, including FAFSA tracking and scholarship aggregation help.
Data-driven recommendations for students
College and technical education exploration
Students will have an improved ability to explore a range of university, college, or technical school options so they can better design the right path for themselves with a range of options.
Enhanced post-secondary academic pathway recommendation algorithm
The first data-driven major recommendation algorithm based on interests, aptitudes, skills, and other factors allows students to link their post-secondary choice to their career objectives.
Available for the 2023-24 academic year |
Brightpath |
Aptitude & Career Discovery |
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Aptitude assessment |
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Career exploration |
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Describing you |
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College exploration |
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Postsecondary search and recommendations |
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Education & Career Planning |
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Social emotional learning (SEL) reflections |
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Resume builder |
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4-year course planner |
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College planning resources |
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College application organizer and tracker |
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Details on local and national employers |
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Highlighted careers |
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Work-Based Experiences |
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Employer directory |
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Work-based learning (WBL) activity management |
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Advisory boards |
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Industry-Recognized Certifications (200+ available) |
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Employability skills certifications |
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Unlimited certification testing (pre/post, benchmark, retakes) |
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Digital certification portfolio |
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Qualified employer opportunities |
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Built-in user accommodation and accessibility support |
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SSO/SIS Integration |
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Insights, Analytics, & Admin Dashboard |
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Training and Implementation |
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Let us show you a better path
to student success
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A better path for all
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