Berkeley Business Academy for Youth

B-BAY Afterschool 2023 Application

Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis and will recieve a response within two weeks of receipt of all application documents. The final deadline to apply is January 22, 2023 at 5pm PST.

B-BAY Afterschool

Are you a middle school student who is interested in business but have other summer plans? Check out the Berkeley Business Academy for Youth Middle School Afterschool Program! B-BAY Afterschool is a virtual experience offered to students currently in grades 6-8th!

Facing change head-on is familiar territory for entrepreneurs. An entrepreneurial mindset allows you to overcome challenges, make predictions about the future, learn from mistakes, and strive for improvement. While you will face the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 for years to come, as a future business leader you can be a part of shaping the new normal. B-BAY Afterschool will allow you to do just that! Through instruction from BerkeleyHaas faculty, industry experts, college teaching assistant mentors and critical thinking, problem solving workshops with your peers, students will work in teams to utilize new found knowledge to develop a solution for a problem as we transition from COVID-19. into a Long or Post-Covid world.

Program Schedule

B-BAY Afterschool will be 100% virtual. Students must be able to access Zoom and Canvas.

Program Dates:

Gold Cohort: February 1 - April 10, 2023 Mondays and Wednesday 3:30-4:30 PST*

Blue Cohort: February 2 - April 11, 2023 Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-4:30pm PST*

*Note: Cohorts will not meet March 27 -March 31, 2023 due to UCB Spring Recess

Application Instructions

Please note there is a $80 application fee. Program fee of $1642 is due at the time of registration.

Applicants must respond to the following 300 words or less:

One of the BerkeleyHaas defining principles is “Beyond Yourself.” Due to COVID-19, this idea has become more important than ever. Describe a situation since we transitioned fgrom COVID-19 into the Long or Post COVID world where you have gone Beyond Yourself. How would participating in Berkeley Business Academy for Youth help middle schoolers go Beyond themselves as we navigate the new world?

We recommend completing the essay before beginning the application.

Accepted students will have 10 days (including weekends) after acceptance to register for the program. Program fee of $1642 is due at the time of registration.

Contact Us

Email: bbay@berkeley.edu