All Rights Reserved.© TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS. Junior Achievement is always looking for sponsors for schools that need financial help to come to JA BizTown and for volunteers to help at that facility and at their school programs. Alexandra Henry has big plans… "to learn be a CEO so when I grow up, I could be a CEO of a company." JA BizTown in Western Pennsylvania is booming with these kids who are already learning to conquer the world of business.
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Up to 12,000 kids a year will get to go to JA BizTown, now the 39th like it around the country. The whole 5th grade was waiting for the blessed field trip, but it never came. Jannah Jablonowski, spokesperson for Giant Eagle, says, "The concept of going to a grocery store is something that many children and many families are familiar with, but they don't really think beyond that as to how many career opportunities really are available within those four walls of a supermarket." There are a lot of jobs here that they probably never thought existed." "To get them to think about their career opportunities that are here in the region. Junior Achievement CEO Dennis Gilfoyle says it also gets kids thinking about local jobs.
"I wanted this job because I've always loved music, and I thought maybe it would be nice to run a (radio) station," Ziegler says. The Classical Academy 5th grade students participated in Junior Achievement BizTown in mid-December. The CFO and I right now are working on the loan application." Josie Ziegler says, "I'm CEO of 100.7 Star (radio station). Kaylee Demchak says, "My job is the CEO of Federal Credit Union, and I fill out loan applications and I help my co-workers." "My job is to keep the company running, and so far I've been running around making orders," she explains. Alexandra Henry is "CEO" of Calgon Carbon. They quickly got to work at their companies, doing many different jobs.Įach of the 19 local companies has a storefront with a CEO. The 4th-graders were all dressed-up for the professional world. The school bus arrived from Claysville Elementary School in the McGuffey School District Tuesday morning, the first group of kids to experience JA BizTown. Now, the kids are also taking field trips to JA BizTown in Bridgeville where they get to practice the skills they're learning in a simulated business world. Junior Achievement, the world's oldest and largest youth development organization, serves about 70,000 kids in Western Pennsylvania in 3,000 classrooms, teaching them about business.
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