JA Business Week Has Lasting Impact on JA Alumnus
Nick Quinlan, JA Business Week volunteer, addresses the audience at the closing ceremony Major League Hacking senior partner Nick Quinlan says that JA Business Week "set the course for me...
JA Partners Inspire Students and Support Business Values by Sponsoring Curriculum
Students participate in the JA STEM Job Shadow program at ViaWest A high school sophomore from Denver Public Schools enters a corporate office for the first time. She sees how professionals...
JA Alumna Jaimie Zhu Harnesses the Power of JA
For Jaimie Zhu, currently a software engineer for Facebook in Seattle, JA Business Week was the right JA program, at the right time, to help fuel her academic and career...
Western Union Empowers Communities Through Financial Literacy
Western Union Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Roscoe (right) and Chief of Staff Nicole Vogrin teach JA Ourselves Repeatedly, Western Union employees demonstrate their steadfast commitment to helping young people in...
The Students Keep Me Coming Back to JA Business Week
By: Joe Acker, JA Business Week Company Advisor Several years ago, I received an email regarding the need for judges at a Junior Achievement summer competition. Without really knowing what...
Otter Products: Inspiring Kids to Change the World
It’s an amazing experience for high school students to tour Otter Products’ offices in Fort Collins. To see Otter Products professionals at work and to experience the creative and fun...
The JA Stock Market Challenge student events are exciting, inspiring and highly educational. If you have ever attended one of these events, you know that they are also very, very...
Why not be a little disruptive?
I like to be disruptive, it's true. I like to take calculated risks, shake things up and color outside the lines. I embrace that role. Being disruptive is often viewed...
You may need to remind yourself: These are high school students on summer vacation
A volunteer exclaimed, “Speaking with these students today has completely changed my outlook on the next generation.” This comment followed the JA Business Week Entrepreneurship lunch where more than 20...
