High School Entrepreneurship Programs
As high school students begin to position themselves for their future, there are many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. Junior Achievement’s high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future, and fosters skills that will be highly useful in the business world.
Junior Achievement’s entrepreneurship pathway provides a measurable way to ensure students develop both an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial skills. JA’s competencies support identifying opportunities, innovative thinking, problem solving, and risk tolerance as well preparing young people to launch financially lucrative and sustainable enterprises.
JA Be Entrepreneurial (Creative Problem Solving)
In JA Creative Problem Solving, students learn and apply design thinking, an innovative process for problem solving used by entrepreneurs (and intrapreneurs) to brainstorm customer-centric ideas.
JA Be Entrepreneurial (Rapid Business Planning)
In JA Rapid Business Planning, students learn about the Lean Model Canvas, the strategic management template for developing business models.
JA Be Entrepreneurial (Think Like An Entrepreneur)
In JA Think Like an Entrepreneur, students develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving.
JA Business Communication
JA Business Communications is a one-semester teacher-led course that equips high school students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business.
JA Career Success
JA Career Success is an engaging and comprehensive learning experience that introduces high school students to the workplace. The learning experience teaches soft skills and business best practices in the context of scenarios and assignments.
JA Company Program
JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community and teaches them practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture.
JA Company Program Pop-Up
JA Company Program® Pop-Up teaches students how to plan, launch, and operate their own business venture within a structured, guided experience. Throughout the start-up process, students collaborate, make crucial business decisions, practice communication skills, and develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills.
JA Entrepreneurial Mindset
A Entrepreneurial Mindset, is a one-semester teacher-led course that introduces high school students to the basics of starting a business, including developing entrepreneurial abilities, identifying a business opportunity, creating a business plan, economics, and the stages of business growth.
JA Financial Capability 1
JA Financial Capability 1 is a one-semester teacher-led course in which high school students examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on banking, economics, business planning, and risk management.
JA Financial Capability 2
JA Financial Capability 2 is a semester-long, teacher-led course, in which high school students examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on employee benefits, ethics, business investment, and international business operations.
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 1
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 1 is a one-semester teacher-led course that introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business.
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 2
JA Introduction to Business and Technology 2 is a one-semester teacher-led course that introduces high school students to the basic skills necessary to succeed in business.
JA Launch
Lesson
JA Launch Lesson is a point-of-entry program delivered by community entrepreneurs. Students gain firsthand knowledge about starting a business and the entrepreneurial journey
JA Marketing Principles 1
JA Marketing Principles® 1 is a one-semester teacher-led course that introduces high school students to marketing and some basic marketing techniques.
JA Marketing Principles 2
In JA Marketing Principles® 2, a one-semester teacher-led course, high school students learn about marketing in the world around them and potential careers in the field.