Category: Students

June 27, 2014

Colorado Students Attend JA National Student Leadership Summit

For the first time ever, students from Colorado were selected as finalists for the national JA Company of the Year and JA Business Plan Challenge competitions. The finals were part...

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June 26, 2014

JA Business Week Company Advisor Leads by Example

Rondah Frierson and her JA Business Week student company Rewind a few years to a warm, sunny June day at the Johnson & Wales campus, and you’ll find Rondah Frierson...

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June 19, 2014

JA Business Week Alumna Returns to Volunteer

It seems as if I did not have enough from JA Business Week the first time around. When I attended JA Business Week throughout my high school summers (2007-2011), I...

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June 16, 2014

Team Building Gone Right

I have attended Junior Achievement Business Week for the past three years. The program always leads to new learning experiences and open doors. The people at Junior Achievement really see...

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June 9, 2014

“I’m a future entrepreneur!”

Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, Inc. received a $16,000 grant from the Sam’s Club Giving Program to support its entrepreneurship programs in 15 local Denver-area classrooms during the 2013/14 school year.   The grant was...

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April 9, 2014

New survey reveals gender gap among teens planning to attend college

Junior Achievement USA® (JA) and The Allstate Foundation’s 2014 Teens & Personal Finance Survey reveals a gender gap among teenagers’ views and habits on budgeting, college plans and future earning...

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March 13, 2014

JA National Leadership Summit 2014

Students who participated in JA Be Entrepreneurial and JA Company Program during the 2013/14 school year might be eligible to participate in Junior Achievement's 2014 National Student Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., from June 16 to...

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February 18, 2014

Millennials & Social Good

The Millennial generation wields powerful influence both on and offline. It comprises the largest segment of the U.S. population—more than 100 million members, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Given its sheer...

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October 22, 2013

JA Featured on PBS’ American Graduate Day Broadcast

Junior Achievement was recently featured on PBS’ national broadcast about nonprofits who are working to boost U.S. high school graduation rates.

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