It's possible with Brightpath
It's possible with Brightpath

 to personalized student journeys.

 to improving student equity.

 to career and technical education enrollment.

 to certifying students’ skills and abilities.

 to connecting education to the real world.

A better path

A better path to certifying students skills and abilities.

A better path to improving student equity.

A better path to career and technical education enrollment.

A better path to personalized student journeys.

A better path to connecting education to the real world.

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.

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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.

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Bring the real world into all students’ education journey

Brightpath is optimized to engage students using real-world applications, settings, and employer experiences.

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Enable students to continue learning beyond high school

Brightpath helps students explore careers, courses, educational opportunities, and pathways.

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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.

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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.

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Aptitude & Career Discovery

Discover interests and aptitudes to create personalized post-secondary pathways.

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Education & Career Plan

Empower educators with an end-to-end platform that connects education with career development.

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Industry Certifications

Quantify student knowledge and skills through industry-recognized certifications.

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Education Connections

Connect students with educational institutions based on interests and aptitudes.

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Work-Based Experiences

Streamline management of work-based learning for educators to optimize student experiences.

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Career Connections

Connect students with regional employers to gain real-world work experience.

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Insights & Analytics

Generate reports using real-time data and analytics to measure student and program success.

What’s included

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Brightpath
  • Single login (new)
  • SIS rostering (new)
  • Unified accounts (new)
  • Integrated homepage and platform (new)
  • Improved user experience (new)
  • Updated admin (new)
  • Training and implementation
  • Global profile & privacy management (coming soon)
  • Cross-app impersonation (coming soon)
Aptitude & Career Discovery
  • Aptitude and interest assessment
  • Career exploration
  • College exploration
  • Describing you
Career Connections
  • Expanded employer listing pages (new)
  • Details on local area and national employers
  • Work-based learning interests
  • Priority certifications
  • Highlighted careers
  • Entry-level jobs
Education & Career Plan
  • Educational and career planning for high school (new)
  • 4-year course planner (new)
  • Resume builder (new)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) reflection statements
  • Educational and career planning for middle school (coming soon)
  • Parent portal (coming soon)
Education Connections
  • College planning features (new)
  • Personalized postsecondary search and recommendations
  • College planning resources
  • College application organizer and tracker
  • Custom college landing page
Industry Certifications
  • Improved certifications user experience (new)
  • Learner exam management dashboards (new)
  • Single login (new)
  • Updated user interface (new)
  • New data visualization capabilities (new)
  • Faster and easier data analysis (new)
  • 200+ industry certification exams (all national career clusters and 21st century skills)
  • Standards-aligned exams
  • Publishing partners with standards-aligned curriculum
  • Industry-recognized credentials
  • Built-in user accommodation and accessibility support
Insights & Analytics
  • Reporting as its own service (new)
  • One-page student summary (new)
  • Aggregated reporting (new)
  • CTE pathway alignments
  • Data-backed advice
  • Precise recruiting
  • Program efficacy
  • Work-based experiences
  • Industry and workforce insights
Work-Based Experiences
  • Employer directory
  • WBL activity management
  • Advisory boards
  • Opportunity board
  • Multiple reports

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Available for the 2023-24 academic year

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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

X

Postsecondary search and recommendations

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Education & Career Planning

X

Social emotional learning (SEL) reflections

X

Resume builder

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4-year course planner

X

College planning resources

X

College application organizer and tracker

X

Details on local and national employers

X

Highlighted careers

X

Work-Based Experiences

X

Employer directory

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Work-based learning (WBL) activity management

X

Advisory boards

X

Industry-Recognized Certifications (200+ available)

X

Employability skills certifications

X

Unlimited certification testing (pre/post, benchmark, retakes)

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Digital certification portfolio

X

Qualified employer opportunities

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Built-in user accommodation and accessibility support

X

SSO/SIS Integration

X

Insights, Analytics, & Admin Dashboard

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Training and Implementation

X

middle, high school, post-secondary, and community organizations use YouScience.

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more than 5.5 million certifications administered.

87,178,291,200 billion permutations of aptitude results.

Let us show you a better path
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Brightpath FAQ

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What is Brightpath?

YouScience® Brightpath is the first-of-its-kind 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. It’s the only online, performance-based measurement of aptitude technology software available on the market today that is available to schools and designed specifically to match students with best-fit education and careers.

How does Brightpath help educators and administrators?

Brightpath gives educators and administrators the tools they need to measure student aptitudes (their natural talents) and analyze those along with their interests to create personalized pathways for school and life. Then, leveraging our end-to-end platform, educators and administrators can help students certify their skills, connect with employers to gain real-world work experience, and manage workflows all in one place. And, they can generate reports using real-time data and analytics to measure student and program performance.

What is the technology behind Brightpath?

Brightpath combines a series of aptitude-driven brain games developed over decades with proprietary artificial intelligence and algorithms to reveal natural abilities and interests. The platform processes the results and  provides information about the student, then matches them to best-fit careers based on their aptitudes and interests. 

For more information on the validity behind our technology, view this report.

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A better path for all

YouScience CEO shares why Brightpath is changing education.

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Introducing YouScience Brightpath

Read the offical YouScience press release.

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Brightpath overview

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YouScience® Brightpath Top Features

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