JA EMERGING ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAMS
Instilling an entrepreneurial mindset and providing a launch pad for tomorrow’s brightest innovators.
JA’s hands-on entrepreneurship programs expose youth to business concepts—helping them understand that start-ups are a viable career option, and providing opportunities to run their own businesses, work as part of a team, and be guided by real-world mentors, including local entrepreneurs and business professionals. Through teamwork, students learn to understand and appreciate the responsibilities each person has in running a business. By utilizing a learning model that incorporates 21st century technology and contemporary teaching methods, students learn in ways that foster innovation and ingenuity. Volunteer role models connect with students in both traditional and digital classrooms while sharing their personal and professional experiences to further ignite students’ entrepreneurial spirit.
Available for all ages/grade levels
JA Launch Lesson is an inspirational in-classroom experience led by local entrepreneurs. Students gain firsthand knowledge about starting a business and the entrepreneurial journey, understanding and learning the opportunities, challenges, and preparation required for successful participation in the global economy and the workforce.
JA Launch Lesson program details:
• In-Person and Virtual
• 1 hour presentation led by a JA volunteer
Through hands-on activities and a JA cast of characters serving as symbols for financial literacy and entrepreneurship concepts, students learn a practical approach to starting a business and making smart decisions about managing money. Students learn to think like entrepreneurs and identifya small business they can start, and learn the basic steps of starting a business.
JA It's My Business! provides students an opportunity to learn how to turn an idea into a business. The program introduces students to the process of design thinking as a problem-solving process and provides an authentic entrepreneurial experience for students, with each session building toward a product-pitch competition.
JA Company Program: Pop-Up engages entrepreneurs and business professionals to teach students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business venture within a structured, guided experience. Throughout the start-up process, students collaborate, make crucial business decisions, practice communication skills, and develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills within a streamlined, volunteer-led experience. All profits generated benefit the school, a designated community organization, or other school-approved recipient.
JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community and teaches them the practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture. Throughout the process of building their own company, students collaborate, make crucial business decisions, communicate with multiple stakeholders, and develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. Community volunteers and mentors provide real-world guidance and experience to the student-led startup.
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