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Ignite your students’ potential with Junior Achievement. Our diverse learning experiences transform classrooms into exciting learning environments, empowering students of all ages to discover their passions and develop essential life skills in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work and career readiness. Whether you’re looking to enrich your in-school curriculum or create engaging out-of-school experiences, we offer flexible options to fit your needs, including year-round and summer programs.
Registration begins August 1.
Have questions or can’t find what you are looking for? Contact the Program & Administrative Coordinator for more information.
The Junior Achievement Learning Experience options have been selected based on their proven effectiveness, engagement, and adaptability to various learning needs. This focused selection allows us to offer well-vetted options that we trust to provide meaningful, impactful learning experiences while maintaining consistency and excellence across our educational programs. If you don’t see a program that fits your needs, contact us and we can help you determine the best option.
JA Ourselves uses storybook characters in read-aloud and hands-on activities to introduce the role people play in an economy and teach about individual choices, money, the importance of saving and giving, and the value of work.
5 Sessions
30 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Families introduces students to entrepreneurship and learning objectives for social studies, including families, neighborhoods, money, and needs and wants. Through hands-on activities students explore the ways businesses provide goods, services, and jobs for families.
5 Sessions
30 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Community 2.0 introduces students to work readiness and shows how citizens benefit from and contribute to a community’s success using posters and games to offer practical information about businesses and the many jobs those businesses offer in a community.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our City introduces students to financial literacy and learning objectives for social studies, including how people manage their money and the importance of economic exchange within a city.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA More than Money introduces students to financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and social studies learning objectives that include money-management skills, goods and services, and global markets.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Region introduces students to entrepreneurship and upper elementary social studies learning objectives, including regions, resources, supply chains, and problem solving through games and activities.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA Our Nation provides practical information about the need for employees who can meet the demands of the 21st century job market, particularly high-growth, high-demand jobs.
5 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA BizTown® combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town, helping to connect the dots between what students learn in school and the real world.
***See our JA BizTown page for more details and to request registration!***
5 Units/14 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
+ Field Trip to JA BizTown
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
***See our Career Fair page for more details and to request registration!***
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA BizTown® combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town, helping to connect the dots between what students learn in school and the real world.
***See our JA BizTown page for more details and to request registration!***
5 Units/14 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
+ Field Trip to JA BizTown
JA Company Program Pop Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business. This program is a shortened version of the traditional, JA Company Program. It can also be implemented with students in middle school.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
+ Business Pop-up Experience
JA Economics for Success helps students explore career interests and opportunities and learn about financial roles and responsibilities. Implementation can feature a single pathway, either Work and Career Readiness or Financial Literacy, or a combination of both in this blended class.
6-10 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Finance Park® Entry Level helps students build a foundation on which they can make intelligent financial decisions that last a lifetime, including decisions related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.
14 Sessions
30-45 Minutes Each
+ 3 Hour Virtual Simulation
JA It’s My Future Blended Model offers middle school students practical information to help prepare them for the working world. Students will develop the personal-branding and job-hunting skills needed to earn a job.
6 Sessions
45 Minutes Each
Digital or Limited Kits
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills. Lessons focus on social and soft skill competencies that relate real-life experiences to job skills and prepare students for their future careers.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
***See our Career Fair page for more details and to request registration!***
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In JA Creative Problem Solving, students learn and apply design thinking, a problem-solving process used by entrepreneurs to brainstorm customer-centric ideas, focusing on user needs and experience in order to design a solution.
5 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In Rapid Business Planning, Lean Canvas, the strategic management template for developing business models, is used to transform their ideas into concise, effective, actionable one-page business plans.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Be Entrepreneurial teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. In JA Think Like an Entrepreneur, students develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving.
3 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Career Success introduces students to the workplace. As interns, students participate in realistic work experiences in multiple departments of a fictional company, teaching soft skills and business best practices in the context of scenarios and assignments.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community. They learn practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture.
14 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Business Experience
JA Company Program Pop Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business. This program is a shortened version of the traditional, JA Company Program. It can also be implemented with students in middle school.
7 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
+ Business Pop-Up Experience
JA Finance Park® Advanced helps students build a foundation on which they can make intelligent financial decisions that last a lifetime, including decisions related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.
14 Sessions
30-45 Minutes Each
+ 3 Hour Virtual Simulation
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills. Lessons focus on social and soft skill competencies that relate real-life experiences to job skills and prepare students for their future careers.
6 Sessions
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
Through JA Personal Finance 2.0, students experience the interrelationship between today’s financial decisions and future financial freedom. To achieve financial health and wellness, they learn about money-management strategies, including budgeting, saving, credit and debt, consumer protection, smart shopping, investing, and net worth.
8 Sessions (+4 optional)
45-60 Minutes Each
Digital Format
JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters. Volunteers share information about their businesses and/or jobs, and students ask questions as the speakers or students rotate from station to station.
***See our Career Fair page for more details and to request registration!***
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ 3-5 Hour Career Fair
In JA Career Speaker Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience. The speaker may bring props, work samples, or other visuals to help engage students.
Pre & Post Sessions Available & Recommended
Vary by Grade Level
+ Speaker Event
JA Business Communications focuses on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations; talking about job performance; and writing in a business setting.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Financial Literacy equips high school students with foundational personal finance skills. These skills include how to earn and save money; manage money; manage bank accounts, investments, and credit; assess risks and use insurance; and address financial problems like identity theft and debt.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 1 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business. Themes include personal skills like teamwork, innovation, decision making, and ethics.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 2 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business. Themes include personal skills like innovation, management functions, and accounting.
4 Units, 4 Sessions in Each
45-90 Minutes Sessions
Digital Format
All Junior Achievement programs are aligned with State & National as well as Common Core Standards. For more information regarding each, click on the links below.
