Program areas at Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay
Educational programs: the organization offers hands-on, experiential programming and learning to k-12 students, which focuses on financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career & work readiness. During the 2021-2022 school year, ja impacted approx. 47,900 students in 1,914 classes. Our learning experiences include sequential themes for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students taught in the two capstone experiences and our new public high school educational model. Students learn the basic concepts of business and economics and how education is relevant to the workplace. (see schedule o for continuation)the sequential activities build on studies from each preceeding grade and prepare students for secondary school lifelong learning.
3de:the organization also offers 3de, a new experiential educational model aiming to re-engineer public high school education. 1,041 students were enrolled in 3de across 4 Tampa Bay schools in the 2021-2022 school year. 3de uses case methodology and its core competencies like critical thinking, effective collaboration, engaging communication, and self-direction to teach students relevant skills they can carry beyond their primary education.
Capstone programs: the organization offers two capstone programs that provide simulation experiences following in-class curriculum. Approximately 17,500 students visited ja biztown during 2021-2022. Ja biztown provides an engaging, hands-on program that introduces 5th graders to economic concepts, workplace skills, and personal and business finances in a student-sized town built just for them. Approximately 14,900 students visitied ja finance park during 2021-2022. Ja finance park engages 8th grade students in the rare opportunity to experience their personal financial futures first-hand. Students participate in an immersive simulation that enables them to develop key skills to successfully navigate today's complex economic environment and discover how decisions today can impact tomorrow. The ja inspire career center located within ja finance park, is dedicated to fueling young peoples' imagination. Infused with state-of-the art technology, this immersive, hands-on experience, will inspire middle school students to explore their future plan and prepare to seize tomorrow's opportunities by exposing them to in-demand careers on the Tampa Bay horizon.