Equip your teen with the life skills needed to thrive in adulthood!
Ambition is a mobile life readiness platform for teens.
Research shows that teen years are important for developing executive function, social-emotional, and life skills.
Teen years are when kids are suspended between the dependence of childhood and the independence of adulthood.
Teens are supposed to learn skills that serve them as adults, like decision making, time and task management, communication, critical thinking, financial literacy, self-regulation, online and offline safety, and more.
These are crucial skills needed for a successful adulthood. Research shows that executive function, a set of cognitive skills that include working memory, attention, and self-control, is a higher predictor of success than test scores, IQ, and socioeconomic status.
But most teens aren't being taught the skills needed to live happy, healthy, and successful lives.
Many schools focus on academic topics and often ignore executive function and other crucial life skills. Despite this, students are still expected to bring these skills to school and use them to succeed.
If not in school, where are teens supposed to learn the skills needed to thrive in college, their careers, and adulthood? While some youth programs teach these skills, only 11% of high schoolers are enrolled in an afterschool program. This leaves many teens without access to developing the tools they need to succeed.
If a teen doesn't learn these skills, their parents often fill the voids, increasing the risk of that teen becoming a young adult who relies on their parents longer into adulthood. Research shows that those with low executive function are more likely to experience unemployment, incarceration, and even higher mortality rates later in life.
So we created Ambition to help prepare teens for life.
Based in research, Ambition's bite-sized mobile courses are designed to help teens develop the skills needed to thrive in college, their careers, and adulthood.
Ambition empowers teens to take their personal development into their own hands. Teens can complete courses anytime, anywhere, and at their own pace.
20k+
lessons completed
82%
course completion
96%
course-to-course retention
How it works is simple.
You reward your teen for investing in themselves and their development.
1
You and your teen agree on a reward.
What are you willing to offer your teen for completing life skill development courses? Maybe it’s concert tickets, an extended curfew, new sneakers, a week off from chores, or whatever. We make it easy for you and your teen to negotiate the terms in the app. Extrinsic rewards incentivize your teen, reinforce the value of their time and effort, and show them that there are benefits in investing in themselves.
Financial Literacy
Goal Setting
Decision Making
Self-Regulation
College Readiness
Critical Thinking
Effective Communication
Time Management
Task Management
Self-
Motivation
Relationship
Management
Career
Readiness
And more!
2
Your teen takes life skills courses.
Our micro-learning platform takes into account the increasing demands for your teen's time and their short attention spans. We break down life skill development into 7-day courses that only take 10 minutes per day.
3
You can monitor their development.
As your teen works through our life skills courses, you’ll have access to the lessons, you’ll be able to track their progress, and you’ll get assessment reports, including reflection videos from your teen (see example video).
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You reward your teen for completing courses.
Research shows that teens are only beginning to develop intrinsic motivation for personal growth and self-improvement, with a peak in motivation around age 23. Ambition leverages extrinsic rewards to encourage teen participation. As teens begin to experience success and develop confidence in their abilities, they may begin to find the learning process itself more intrinsically rewarding and may be more likely to continue investing in their personal development even in the absence of extrinsic rewards.
Our pricing is reasonable.
ANYONE CAN TAKE OUR COURSES FOR FREE!
Nobody is priced out from learning.
Parents can pay for access to:
1) Their child's learning dashboard
2) The reward tracking tool
3) Daily parent-child conversation prompts related to lessons their child completes
1-Month Trial
FREE
Monthly
$9.99
Yearly
$99.99
Join our wait list!
Are you ready to prepare your teen for college, their career, and adulthood? Sign up below and we'll let you know when space opens up.
Email info@theambitionapp.com with any questions or feedback.