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Course Descriptions:
JA It's My Business
If entrepreneurship is behind a country’s economic success, then what is behind entrepreneurship itself? Can one learn to think and act like an entrepreneur? Most definitely. This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
JA It’s My Business will provide an engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in entrepreneurship. The students will be able to:
- Define entrepreneurship
- Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics
- Describe how entrepreneurs fill a market need
- Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and competitive advantage
- Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business
- Develop business plans based on a set criteria
Following participation in the program, students will be able to apply their entrepreneurship skills to education, career, and service pursuits.
JA Our Families
Children tend to think everything they want is something they need. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is one of the first crucial lessons in financial literacy. By focusing on the roles of people play in their local economy, students understand the importance of work, and the tools and skills to get – or earn – what they want.
The goals of JA Our Families are:
- Increase the students’ knowledge of how jobs provide for a family’s needs and wants.
- Help students become more aware of the types of jobs family members hold.
- Heighten the students’ awareness of how each person contributes to the well-being of the family
- Help the students learn the importance of working to pay for needs and wants
JA It's My Business
If entrepreneurship is behind a country’s economic success, then what is behind entrepreneurship itself? Can one learn to think and act like an entrepreneur? Most definitely. This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
JA It’s My Business will provide an engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in entrepreneurship. The students will be able to:
- Define entrepreneurship
- Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics
- Describe how entrepreneurs fill a market need
- Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and competitive advantage
- Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business
- Develop business plans based on a set criteria
Following participation in the program, students will be able to apply their entrepreneurship skills to education, career, and service pursuits.
JA Our Families
Children tend to think everything they want is something they need. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is one of the first crucial lessons in financial literacy. By focusing on the roles of people play in their local economy, students understand the importance of work, and the tools and skills to get – or earn – what they want.
The goals of JA Our Families are:
- Increase the students’ knowledge of how jobs provide for a family’s needs and wants.
- Help students become more aware of the types of jobs family members hold.
- Heighten the students’ awareness of how each person contributes to the well-being of the family
- Help the students learn the importance of working to pay for needs and wants
LET THEIR SUCCESS BE YOUR INSPIRATION​
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