COPPA-compliant career discovery. Email-less flow. Free for camps.

The programme coordinator generates a cohort code in the dashboard. Parents/guardians sign a digital consent form once at enrolment (we provide the COPPA-aligned template, or you upload your own). Participants enter the cohort code at the assessment page, pick or are assigned a participant tag (typically first name + last initial — no PII required), and complete assessments. No email collection, no account creation, no marketing communication. Results are visible to the coordinator under the participant tag and to the participant via a one-time-view session. Parents can request a result PDF; the coordinator emails it from the programme account.

COPPA Verifiable Parental Consent is the responsibility of the operator collecting personal data — under our deployment model, that operator is the youth programme, not JobCannon. We provide the legal architecture: email-less flow, cohort codes, consent template aligned to FTC guidance, and a record-keeping export of which cohort code corresponds to which signed consent. Programmes choose their VPC method (signed paper form, e-signature, credit-card-verification, or video-call confirmation) per the FTC menu. We do not collect personal information from under-13 participants directly.

At 10-12, the value is exposure and curiosity, not commitment. Career discovery at this age is about widening the mental list of possible futures — most kids can name fewer than 30 careers and most of those come from television. The Multiple Intelligences and Values assessments are appropriate at this age (image-and-statement-based, no SAT-style cognitive load). Career Guide output is framed as "careers people with your strengths often find interesting" rather than "here is what you should do" — exploration tone, not commitment tone. Programmes report participants taking the result home and showing it to family, which is the actual outcome.

Yes. 21st CCLC programmes funded under ESEA Title IV-B require academic enrichment activities with measurable outcomes. Career discovery activities count under the personal-development indicator family. The platform produces aggregate cohort completion data, archetype distribution, and a programme-quality report formatted for your federal programme officer. We provide a quote letter your fiscal office can attach to a 21st CCLC subgrant application.

A one-week camp runs the assessment as a structured 45-minute activity on day two or three. Day one is camp orientation. Day two morning: parents return signed consent forms (or coordinator confirms e-consent already on file). Afternoon: 25-minute Multiple Intelligences plus Values battery on tablets or laptops. Day three: result reveal as a small group activity, with coordinator-facilitated discussion of "what did this say about you, and what did it not say". Coordinator prints take-home result cards before camp end on the final day. Total coordinator time investment: 90 minutes.

Teen cohorts (13-17) can use the standard authenticated flow with their own email and parental notification. The COPPA email-less flow is not required above age 13 under federal law (state laws vary; California CCPA, Colorado CPA, and others extend protections further — we honour the strictest applicable rule per cohort). For mixed-age camps, we recommend running the under-13 flow for all participants under 14, which simplifies operator workflow and exceeds the federal floor.