Student Shares His JA Finance Park® Experience

Student Shares His JA Finance Park® Experience

My experience at JA Finance Park® was a unique one.  It opened many doors and brought new experiences to my life to help better prepare me for the future.  In this essay, I will explain my trip to JA Finance Park®, what I was able to take away from it and describe new things I learned and did there.  I will be explaining what my life was like, what my different takeaways and expectations were and finally, how this experience better equips me for the future.  I will also be providing insight into how this is not only helpful for me now and in the future, but how learning relates to this process.

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington Announces First Annual JA Bowl-A-Thon Pop-up Digital Raffle with Array of Prizes

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington Announces First Annual JA Bowl-A-Thon Pop-up Digital Raffle with Array of Prizes

Today, Junior Achievement of Greater Washington is excited to announce the launch of the first ever JA Bowl-A-Thon pop-up digital raffle. 

This pop-up contest will run through June 15 and anyone may participate. So whether you've bowled, volunteered in the classroom or at one of our region's JA Finance Park® facilities, or just thought about getting involved in the future, this is an opportunity for you to inspire the next generation with the financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship skills to thrive in the future.

PenFed: PenFed Educational Branch Teaches Lessons Beyond Middle School

PenFed: PenFed Educational Branch Teaches Lessons Beyond Middle School

Nearly 9,000 middle school students have learned lessons this year that will help them finance cars and balance their budgets later in life, thanks to an educational branch of PenFed Credit Union at Maryland’s first Junior Achievement Finance Park®. “Someday these middle school students will run our businesses and change our world,” PenFed Credit Union President and CEO James Schenck told the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Greater Washington during a luncheon celebrating the first year of the JA Finance Park in Prince George’s County. “But first, these students are learning valuable life skills right here.”

Gallup and Clifton Foundation offer Washington Builders entrepreneurial internship opportunity to Greater Washington Youth

Gallup and Clifton Foundation offer Washington Builders entrepreneurial internship opportunity to Greater Washington Youth

Dream of running your own business? Have ideas that could change the work? Want to write your own paycheck? 

These are the questions posed by Gallup and the Clifton Foundation in order to attract the best and brightest Greater Washington students to participate in their Washington Builders entrepreneurial internship opportunity this summer. 

JA & HSBC Launch JA Global Marketplace® Digital Curriculum to Prepare Local Students for Future Job Market

JA & HSBC Launch JA Global Marketplace® Digital Curriculum to Prepare Local Students for Future Job Market

Junior Achievement® (JA®) has launched JA Global Marketplace®, a new and innovative digital curriculum tailored for middle school students to provide global business and cultural competencies. The curriculum is supported by HSBC, which shared business expertise and provided a $2 million grant to develop the digital course. 

JA Americas Partner SAP Launches Social-Entrepreneurship MOOC

JA Americas Partner SAP Launches Social-Entrepreneurship MOOC

Are you ready to foster societal change by using your entrepreneurial skills to solve local and global problems? SAP, an important partner with JA Americas, has launched openSAP, an innovative online learning platform and thought leader for Enterprise MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). "Enabling Entrepreneurs to Shape a Better World" is a free, eight-week online course that begins May 30. Sign up today at this link. 

Greater Washington Futures (April)

Greater Washington Futures (April)

On May 5th, we sent students from Eastern High School in Washington, D.C. to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. This was just one of many JA Job Shadow™ experiences we have coordinated with different organizations in the region. Among the students participating in the Job Shadow was Akilah Johnson, the National Winner of the 2015 Doodle4Google contest. Akilah impressed the contest judges as well as people around the world with her vibrant, artistic talent, and powerful, socially relevant content.

Washington Business Journal: Here's who made the Washington Business Hall of Fame this year

Washington Business Journal: Here's who made the Washington Business Hall of Fame this year

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington, the Greater Washington Board of Trade and Washingtonian magazine announced Wednesday the four laureates named to their 2016 Washington Business Hall of Fame.

This year’s group comprises Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of architecture firm Gensler;Tony Nicely, chairman and CEO of Geico; Kenneth Samet, president and CEO of MedStar Health; and Gary Tabach, managing partner of Greater Washington of Deloitte & Touche LLP.

2016 Washington Business Hall of Fame Laureates Announced

2016 Washington Business Hall of Fame Laureates Announced

Washington Business Hall of Fame founders, Junior Achievement of Greater Washington, the Greater Washington Board of Trade and Washingtonian today announced the 2016 Hall of Fame laureates. The Washington Business Hall of Fame, founded in 1988, recognizes the professional and philanthropic contributions of outstanding business leaders in our region who have made Greater Washington the city that it is today. The annual gala benefits Junior Achievement® and its innovative financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship K-12 programs that inspire the next generation of leaders to navigate their path to the American Dream.