Junior Achivement has an innovative new high school program to support budding entrepreneurs, called JA Be Entrepreneurial. The program uses an array of interactive activities to challenge students to start their own entrepreneurial venture while still in high school.
Launched last fall, the program has already reached 600 classrooms and 14,000 high school students nationwide. The program will host an annual competition in Washington, DC. One high school student from Denver already put entrepreneurship into action by creating a student messaging alert system for homework, tests, and field trips. He is now in talks with Denver Public Schools to launch his alert system district-wide.
Three cheers for Junior Achievement. Teaching entrepreneurship, the cornerstone of our great nation’s success and the key to individual self-sufficiency and self-actualization, is certainly an idea long overdue. For information, visit http://www.ja.org/programs/programs_high_be_entre.shtml