Junior Achievement is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to educating students in grades K-12 about work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. JA's unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver our curriculum while sharing their experiences with students.
Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area today broke ground at the future site of a 20,000-square-foot financial literacy center that will bring important life skills to more than 14,000 local middle school students each year.
Junior Achievement Finance Park is scheduled to open in early 2010 on the campus of Frost Middle School in Fairfax County. The financial literacy center is the result of a collaboration among Junior Achievement, Fairfax County Public Schools and Capital One Financial Corporation.
The facility will house an experiential learning center designed to bring to life financial literacy education for all 8th grade students in the Fairfax County Public Schools system as well as to other students from the Greater Washington area.
Inside of the center will be a mock miniature city, where students will learn valuable financial lessons such as budgeting and saving by experiencing first-hand what it is like to create a budget, purchase a car and a home, save for college education, and pay taxes. This experience will build upon an intensive, six-week classroom financial education curriculum students receive before visiting Finance Park.
In a new campaign, Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area asks K-12 students what "I Want To Be." Watch the video below, then help inspire and prepare youth in the Greater Washington Region to succeed in a global economy by donating today!
Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area is pleased to announce the 2009 Junior Achievement Essay Competition, sponsored by David M. Rubenstein. This fall Junior Achievement will invite students from the Greater Washington Region to compete for a $20,000 award.
The competition will be open to any student in the 9th-12th grade from August 17 – October 1, 2009, and will ask students to write a 1,000-1,500 word essay on the topic, "How can Greater Washington companies responsibly and effectively deal with the economic crisis facing the United States?"Click here to learn more!
Timothy Hwang, a junior at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, MD, was named Youth Entrepreneur of the Year for the Greater Washington Region by Ernst & Young and Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area. Timothy, who is 17, was honored for founding Operation Fly Inc., a non-profit organization that provides services to the homeless in Washington, DC and four other major cities. Click here to learn more!
In the May 5 edition of USA Today, Junior Achievement's annual "Teens and Personal Finance" poll is cited in the Money section's cover story about the teen summer job market. The article projects this summer's job market to be more challenging than last summer's, which was the toughest in six decades. The article cites our survey's data points around many teens working alongside more adults now than previously, and the anxiety that one-in-three teens is feeling about the economy. Click here to read the article, or click here to read the Teens and Personal Finance survey.
A team of students from Lake Braddock Secondary School led by senior Eric Taylor, junior Joe Conte, and advisor Mr. Jim Novak topped over 800 other Virginia state high school teams to win the Stock Market Game. Both Eric and Joe were in Mr. Novak's JA Economics Class, co-taught by JA volunteer Kurt Langenwalter from First Command Financial Planning in Alexandria, VA. Mr. Langenwalter not only taught the JA Economics curriculum, but also helped the students prepare for The Stock Market Game.
In The Stock Market Game, students manage a simulated investment portfolio for 10 weeks. Each team begins with $100,000 and the team with the highest portfolio value at the end of the time period wins. The team from Lake Braddock led by Eric and Joe finished with over $221,130 in their portfolio, $21,000 more than the second place team!
Mr. Langenwalter has been volunteering with JA for over a year and says "volunteering with Junior Achievement and Mr. Novak's Economics class was a rewarding and enjoyable experience. By helping young adults understand how to make smart money decisions ... I know they will be better equipped to make economic decisions as adults."
Junior Achievement's new $ave, USA program provides parents and educators with tools for discussing money-management issues with their children and students. Part of the USA Financial Fitness Initiative, $ave, USA is a series of three 45-minute lessons that create an easy and stimulating environment for teaching sound economic fundamentals early in life. The elementary, middle, and high school programs are available for free download.
Junior Achievement, with the support of The Allstate Foundation, conducted its tenth annual "Teens and Personal Finance" poll in late February. The survey assesses how the current economic climate has impacted the spending and saving habits of American teens. Click here to learn the results!
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June 11, 2009
Ground Broken for Junior Achievement Finance Park
