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Ed Grenier
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President and CEO
Junior Achievement of
Greater Washington
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Across Greater Washington, students of all ages are once again heading back to school. This academic year, Junior Achievement will empower more than 52,000 young people to own their economic success.
JA will accomplish this by partnering with over 1,400 educators and 3,200 volunteers to teach financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship skills to youth in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
We invite our veteran volunteers to return to their classrooms this fall, and encourage prospective volunteers to join a school seeking their mentorship.
We invite the business community to join us in a celebration of entrepreneurial success at the Washington Business Hall of Fame on Tuesday, November 29.
And we invite all members of the public – parents, neighbors, community leaders, and all who believe in the value of financial literacy education – to support our youth by making a small donation.
As always, your support makes our work possible.
Thank you.
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Empowering young people to own their economic success
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JA Serves Record Number of Youth
This past academic year Junior Achievement provided over 500,000 curriculum hours of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship programs to 48,000 young people throughout Greater Washington.
Special thanks to our 3,300 volunteers and 600 companies that taught in 1,500 classrooms across 250 schools last year.
Please visit www.myJA.org/volunteers/ to volunteer in a local school this fall, or www.myJA.org/
educators/ to request a JA program for your classroom.
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Momentum Building for the
Washington Business Hall of Fame
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, November 29 to hear the amazing personal stories of five laureates whose businesses changed Greater Washington.
Tables to Greater Washington's premier business networking event will sell-out by mid November. To learn more and reserve your table today, please visit www.WashingtonBusinessHallofFame.org.
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JA Essay Competition to Award $128,000 in Scholarships and Grants
For the fourth year, Junior Achievement and Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein invite high school students to write a 1,500 word essay for a chance to win a $20,000 college scholarship.
Three winners from each of Maryland, Virginia, and DC will receive a $10,000 scholarship, and one additional grand prize winner will receive $20,000. In addition, the school in Maryland, Virginia, and DC with the greatest number of eligible applications will each receive a $6,000 grant.
The competition is open until October 31. To learn this year’s topic and apply online, please visit www.myJA.org/students/essay/.
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Businesses to Offer Teens JA Job Shadowing Experience
This fall, members of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber will once again partner with JA to provide 160 high school students a unique window into the world of work.
As part of Career Partnership Day businesses will invite students to shadow employees, enabling them to see first-hand the connection between learning and earning, and answering the age-old question, "Why do I have to learn this?"
To learn more, and to register your business to participate in Career Partnership Day by September 30, please visit www.myJA.org/montgomery/programs/
careerpartnershipday/.
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Local High School
Entrepreneur Honored
A video highlighting this year's Youth Entrepreneur of the Year, Brandon Deyo, is now available. Brandon was a senior at Richard Montgomery High School when he was selected as the winner of the 8th Annual Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. He was honored for founding The Mars Reel, an online sports entertainment and video production service.
Brandon's business films, edits, and publishes a wide variety of online videos related to basketball, including game highlight and player recruitment videos. In a year and a half of operation, The Mars Reel's videos have been viewed more than 1.7 million times.
To watch the video of this year's awards ceremony, please visit www.myJA.org/students/yeoty/.
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