State Farm and Junior Achievement Collaborate for Northern Colorado Youth
State Farm announced today that they are contributing $10,000 to Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA) to provide financial education programs to middle and high school students in Larimer and Weld counties...
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Volunteer of the Year Award Nominees 2019
Each year, Junior Achievement invites the community to nominate volunteers for JA’s Volunteer of the Year Award. These individuals embrace the JA mission and go above and beyond to make...
Former Teacher Reconnects with Her Passion through JA Company Partnership
JA volunteer and Lockton employee, Monique Auriemma (back, right), teaches JA in a Day to an elementary school class Monique Auriemma’s love for volunteering with Junior Achievement (JA) began in...
How a Young Woman in Architecture Reimagined Her Potential
The spirit of entrepreneurship is guided by ingenuity, perseverance and an eagerness to learn – qualities that Junior Achievement (JA) alumna Shaian Gutierrez possesses wholeheartedly. Gutierrez participated in JA Business...
4th Graders Get a Closer Look at Colorado Resources through Partnership with CRED
Junior Achievement’s fourth grade program introduces students to entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs use resources to produce goods and services in a region. As students operate a mock hot dog stand,...
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Educator of the Year Award Nominees 2019
Each year, Junior Achievement invites the community to nominate educators for JA’s Educator of the Year Award. These individuals go out of their way to make the JA experience a...
FirstBank Employees are “Banking for Good” Through JA Bowl-A-Thon
FirstBank is one of Junior Achievement’s (JA) champion supporters, instilling and implementing the “banking for good” principles through their community partnerships. Cleve Wortham, member of the JA board of directors...
JA Students Practice for the Real World in Mock Job Interviews with Western Union
What makes Junior Achievement programs so effective is the connection to the real-world students get to experience from volunteer mentors, both in the classroom and in immersive programs. Recently, students...
College Students Introduced to Civic Engagement through JA
A JA volunteer from University of Colorado at Denver leads a hands-on activity with Emory Elementary School students Learning about civic engagement in the University of Colorado at Denver’s (UCD)...
