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Be A Game Changer
Blog from JA USA
By Kelsey Matzinger
Community Involvement
Volunteers are the game-changer! They are the player that ignites those around them to do better and be better. They are the player that changes the on court or on field energy thats a spark plug and leads the team to victory. They are the ones that young people...
The JA EFFECT Widening Horizons
Blog from JA USA
By Kelsey Matzinger
Work Readiness
When she was a child, Socheth McCutcheons family escaped Cambodia, which was under the control of the Khmer Rouge, in search of a better life in the United States. Socheths family settled in Revere, Massachusetts, near Boston. Socheth now serves as a volunteer for Junior Achievement in New Jersey. She feels it is important to pay it forward by being a role model for young people, especially...
Why JA? And Why Now? Financial Literacy as a Foundation for a Better Life
Blog from JA USA
By Ed Grocholski
Financial Literacy
At Junior Achievement, we view financial literacy as the other literacy. Just like reading or writing, we all deal with money on a near daily basis. Junior Achievement employs a pathways approach to teaching financial literacy to young people. By pathways, we mean that JA programs are designed to engage students on the subject over multiple grades, from their first days in kindergarten,...
Why JA? And Why Now? A Response to a Changing Work and Career Landscape
Blog from JA USA
By Ed Grocholski
Work Readiness
Junior Achievements proven programs are shown to inspire and prepare young people for success. Our approach is demonstrated to give students the tools they need to increase their chances of achieving their potential in work, career, and...
2022 Back-to-School Survey: One-Third of Teens Say Rising Cost of School Supplies a Concern
Blog from JA USA
By Kelsey Matzinger
Financial Literacy
According to a new survey by Junior Achievement USA, a third of teens (33%) say that their parents or guardians are concerned about the cost of back-to-school supplies this...
JA Finance Park: Preparing students for financial success
By Ricky Pollitt
Financial Literacy
Its easy for a teenager to get excited when a considerable amount of money comes their way.
Most immediate reactions go towards how that money will be spent. Whether it be a new gaming console, stylish clothes or a fancy vehicle, money can certainly bring short-term happiness, but it can have a far greater impact when used the correct way.
Thats what JA Finance Park aims to achieve. The...
Understanding Business at the Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center
By Ricky Pollitt
Community Involvement
What age do students begin to understand the operations of a business?
The role of consumer becomes an integral part of their lives from an early age, whether that be shopping with a parent or purchasing their own goods and needs.
But what about the process the relationship between consumers, business owners and employees. At what point does an understanding of a capitalist society determine...
Through Junior Achievement, students are Inspired by Experience
By Ricky Pollitt
Community Involvement
What JA really hopes to do is inspire inspire students to create a life that benefits themselves and others; a world that can be passed on to future generations that will empower more development and creation and leaves youth better equipped to succeed.
Inspired By Experience; three words that sum up the objective of the Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center and all that Junior Achievement of...
JA National Student Leadership Summit 2022
Blog from JA USA
By Kelsey Matzinger
Entrepreneurship
In June of 2022, 15 of Junior Achievements top student companies came to the Nations Capital to compete in the 2022 Junior Achievement National Student...
Get to know the Foundations that helped bring the Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center to the Shore
By Ricky Pollitt
Community Involvement
Its only appropriate two of the men Frank Perdue and Richard Henson that helped bring Junior Achievement to the area have their names erected on the magnificent, gleaming facility that will soon house over 10,000 students a...
