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JA High School
Learning Experiences
Junior Achievement’s unique delivery system provides the training, materials, and support necessary to bolster the chances for student success. The impact is measurable, too. Students who participate in Junior Achievement programs demonstrate a significant understanding of economics and business concepts. We invite you to take a closer look at our High School learning experiences!
JA High School
Learning Experiences
Junior Achievement’s unique delivery system provides the training, materials, and support necessary to bolster the chances for student success. The impact is measurable, too. Students who participate in Junior Achievement programs demonstrate a significant understanding of economics and business concepts. We invite you to take a closer look at our High School learning experiences!
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MAKE
A DONATIONTransform lives
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BECOME
A VOLUNTEERPositively change the future
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THE
IMPACTCheck out the alumni report
High School Learning Experiences
High school students are much closer to higher education and employment opportunities, so they frequently have many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. Junior Achievement’s high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future.
With a range of different learning experiences, Junior Achievement teaches concepts relating to entrepreneurship, financial literacy, free enterprise and work readiness. With the help of our JA volunteers we bring real-life business experience and guidance at a time that represents an essential crossroads for young people. While we educate students we also foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world.
JA All About Cars®
JA All About Cars introduces students to the essential costs related to buying and operating their first car and offers tips. (Grades 9-12)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® (Creative Problem Solving)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Creative Problem Solving – introduces students to the concept and application of design thinking, an innovative process for problem solving used by entrepreneurs (and intrapreneurs) to brainstorm customer-centric ideas.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Be Entrepreneurial® (Rapid Business Planning)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Rapid Business Planning – teaches students about the foundations of lean business planning using Lean Canvas, a streamlined, one-page business plan template. Emphasizes rapid business planning to test and refine the approach in continuous improvement cycles.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Be Entrepreneurial® (Think Like an Entrepreneur)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Think Like an Entrepreneur – teaches students to develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving. They learn the entrepreneurial principles, strategies, and skills through the experiences of others and apply them to their own lives.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Business Communications®
JA Business Communications equips high school students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations, talking about performance, and writing in a business setting. (Grades 9-12)
JA Business and Technology® 1
JA Business and Technology® 2
JA Business and Technology® 2
JA Business and Technology 1 and JA Business and Technology 2 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business.
(Grades 9-12)
JA Business and Technology 1 Overview
JA Business and Technology 2 Overview
JA Career Speaker Series®
JA Career Speaker Series provides students with a guest speaker or video sharing information about his/her career, work, and education experience. (Grades K-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Career Speaker Series Program Brief
JA Career Speaker Series Program Overview
JA Career Success Blended®
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JA Career Success Blended equips students with the knowledge required to get and keep a job in high-growth industries. Students explore crucial workplace skills employers seek but often find lacking in young employees. Students also will learn about valuable tools to find that perfect job, including resumes, cover letters, and interviewing techniques. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Career Success Blended Program Brief
JA Career Success Blended Program Overview
JA Economics®
JA Economics examines the fundamental concepts of micro-, macro-, and international economics. (Grades 11-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset®
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset introduces high school students to the basics of starting a business, including developing entrepreneurial abilities, identifying a business opportunity, creating a business plan, economics, and the stages of business growth.(Grades 9-12)
JA Excellence through Ethics®
JA Excellence through Ethics gives students the chance to meet and interact with a business leader to learn about the importance of ethics in the workplace and everyday life. (Grades 6-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Excellence through Ethics Program Brief
JA Excellence through Ethics Program Overview
JA Financial Capability® 1
JA Financial Capability® 2
JA Financial Capability® 2
JA Financial Capabilities 1 and JA Financial Capabilities 2 allows high school students to examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on
banking, economics, business planning, and risk management.(Grades 9-12)
JA Financial Capabilities 1 Overview
JA Financial Capabilities 2 Overview
JA Financial Literacy®
JA Financial Literacy equips high school students with
foundational personal finance skills. (Grades 9-12)
JA Financial Literacy 1 and JA Financial Literacy 2 Overview
JA It's My Job (Soft Skills)®
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JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters. (Grades 6-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) Program Brief
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) Program Overview
JA Finance Park Advanced®
JA Finance Park Advanced is based on the JA Finance Park middle grades curriculum and simulation. The advanced curriculum gives high school students a more personalized focus and the advanced simulation allows students to see the long-term impact of their education, savings, and credit decisions. (Grades 9-12)
JA Launch Lesson®
JA Launch Lesson is a point-of-entry learning experience delivered locally by entrepreneurs. Students learn relevant information firsthand about starting a company and the entrepreneurial journey. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Marketing Principles® 1
JA Marketing Principles® 2
JA Marketing Principles® 2
JA Marketing Principles 1 and JA Marketing Principles 2 introduces high school students to marketing and some basic marketing techniques.(Grades 9-12)
JA Marketing Principles 1 Overview
JA Marketing Principles 2 Overview
JA Personal Finance® 2.0
JA Personal Finance allows students to experience the interrelationship between today’s financial decisions and future financial freedom. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Personal Finance 2.0 Program Brief
JA Personal Finance 2.0 Program Overview
JA Take Stock in Your Future®
JA Take Stock in Your Future students discover the benefits and challenges of investing in the stock market as part of a broader, long-term investment strategy and the risks and rewards of trading.(Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Take Stock in Your Future Program Brief
JA Take Stock in Your Future Program Overview
JA Titan®
JA Titan is a simulation-based learning experience in which high school students compete as business CEOs in the phone industry, experiencing firsthand how an organization evaluates alternatives, makes decisions, analyzes the outcomes of those decisions, and then strategizes what to do next.”(Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
High School Learning Experiences
High school students are much closer to higher education and employment opportunities, so they frequently have many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. Junior Achievement’s high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future.
With a range of different learning experiences, Junior Achievement teaches concepts relating to entrepreneurship, financial literacy, free enterprise and work readiness. With the help of our JA volunteers we bring real-life business experience and guidance at a time that represents an essential crossroads for young people. While we educate students we also foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world.
JA All About Cars®
JA All About Cars introduces students to the essential costs related to buying and operating their first car and offers tips. (Grades 9-12)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® (Creative Problem Solving)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Creative Problem Solving – introduces students to the concept and application of design thinking, an innovative process for problem solving used by entrepreneurs (and intrapreneurs) to brainstorm customer-centric ideas.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Be Entrepreneurial® (Rapid Business Planning)
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Rapid Business Planning – teaches students about the foundations of lean business planning using Lean Canvas, a streamlined, one-page business plan template. Emphasizes rapid business planning to test and refine the approach in continuous improvement cycles.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Be Entrepreneurial®
JA Be Entrepreneurial® – Think Like an Entrepreneur – teaches students to develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving. They learn the entrepreneurial principles, strategies, and skills through the experiences of others and apply them to their own lives.
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Business Communications®
JA Business Communications equips high school students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations, talking about performance, and writing in a business setting. (Grades 9-12)
JA Business and Technology® 1
JA Business and Technology® 2
JA Business and Technology® 2
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 1 and JA Introduction to Business and Technology 2 introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business. (Grades 9-12)
JA Business and Technology 1 Overview
JA Business and Technology 2 Overview
JA Career Speaker Series®
JA Career Speaker Series provides students with a guest speaker or video sharing information about his/her career, work, and education experience.”(Grades K-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Career Speaker Series Program Brief
JA Career Speaker Series Program Overview
JA Career Success Blended®
JA Career Success Blended equips students with the knowledge required to get and keep a job in high-growth industries. Students explore crucial workplace skills employers seek but often find lacking in young employees. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Career Success Blended Program Brief
JA Career Success Blended Program Overview
JA Economics®
JA Economics examines the fundamental concepts of micro-, macro-, and international economics. (Grades 11-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset®
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset introduces high school students to the basics of starting a business, including developing entrepreneurial abilities, identifying a business opportunity, creating a business plan, economics, and the stages of business growth.(Grades 9-12)
JA Excellence through Ethics®
JA Excellence through Ethics gives students the chance to meet and interact with a business leader to learn about the importance of ethics in the workplace and everyday life. (Grades 6-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA Excellence through Ethics Program Brief
JA Excellence through Ethics Program Overview
JA Finance Park Advanced®
JA Finance Park Advanced is based on the JA Finance Park middle grades curriculum and simulation. The advanced curriculum gives high school students a more personalized focus and the advanced simulation allows students to see the long-term impact of their education, savings, and credit decisions. (Grades 9-12)
JA Financial Capability® 1
JA Financial Capability® 2
JA Financial Capability® 2
JA Financial Capabilities 1 and JA Financial Capabilities 2 allows high school students to examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on banking, economics, business planning, and risk management.(Grades 9-12)
JA Financial Capabilities 1 Overview
JA Financial Capabilities 2 Overview
JA Financial Literacy®
JA Financial Literacy equips high school students with foundational personal finance skills. (Grades 9-12)
JA It's My Job (Soft Skills)®
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) helps students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters. (Grades 6-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: High
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) Program Brief
JA It’s My Job (Soft Skills) Program Overview
JA Launch Lesson®
JA Launch Lesson is a point-of-entry learning experience delivered locally by entrepreneurs. Students learn relevant information firsthand about starting a company and the entrepreneurial journey. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: High
- Financial Literacy: Minimal
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Marketing Principles® 1
JA Marketing Principles® 2
JA Marketing Principles® 2
JA Marketing Principles 1 and JA Marketing Principles 2 introduces high school students to marketing and some basic marketing techniques.(Grades 9-12)
JA Marketing Principles 1 Overview
JA Marketing Principles 2 Overview
JA Personal Finance® 2.0
JA Personal Finance allows students to experience the interrelationship between today’s financial decisions and future financial freedom. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Personal Finance Program Brief
JA Personal Finance Program Overview
JA Take Stock in Your Future®
JA Take Stock in Your Future students discover the benefits and challenges of investing in the stock market as part of a broader, long-term investment strategy and the risks and rewards of trading. (Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Minimal
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
JA Take Stock in Your Future Program Brief
JA Take Stock in Your Future Program Overview
JA Titan®
JA Titan is a simulation-based learning experience in which high school students compete as business CEOs in the phone industry, experiencing firsthand how an organization evaluates alternatives, makes decisions, analyzes the outcomes of those decisions, and then strategizes what to do next.”(Grades 9-12)
- Implementation: Classroom Based
- Entrepreneurship: Moderate
- Financial Literacy: High
- Work Readiness: Moderate
I believe JA is a great program for our students because it provides information on topics that affect financial concepts that they may not get in other school course materials. It is important to our community because it brings volunteers in contact with young people to provide real life work experience, successes and guidance to them.
Paul KalbConlon Construction 
I believe JA is a great program for our students because it provides information on topics that affect financial concepts that they may not get in other school course materials. It is important to our community because it brings volunteers in contact with young people to provide real life work experience, successes and guidance to them.
Contact our team to learn more!
Tawnya Hambly
VP – Education
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Stacy Voelliger
Senior Education Manager
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Kelsey Bruce
Education Manager
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Eileen Garland
Education Coordinator
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Andrea Porter
Education Coordinator
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Monica Telschow
Education Coordinator
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Tawnya Hambly
VP – Education
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Stacy Voelliger
Senior Education Manager
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Kelsey Bruce
Education Manager
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Eileen Garland
Education Coordinator
[email protected]
Andrea Porter
Education Coordinator
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Monica Telschow
Education Coordinator
[email protected]