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How can you bridge your business experience to local schools? Volunteer with Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay. You can inspire the next generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and technologists. And you can network with other alums in a team to impact local schools.
Today there is a large gap between the numbers of students in this generation planning to join Silicon Valley’s technology workforce over the next ten years vs. realistic industry needs to sustain growth. Junior Achievement is helping to fill that gap. Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay is the premier K – 12 local economic education organization. Globally, Junior Achievement is the largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization, annually teaching over 4 million elementary, middle school and high school students in 106 countries. Junior Achievement’s mission is for students to be inspired and educated by volunteer role models, who help these youth succeed by linking education to the world of work. Junior Achievement’s unique approach to accomplish its mission is that volunteers from local business organizations combine their work experience with up-to-date Junior Achievement-developed courses to teach students how to apply basic skills and critical thinking to solve complex problems in the “real world.” Armed with this fundamental business and community understanding, 25,000 students annually, in every school grade, learn to become active contributors to the Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay economy.
How Can You Help?
Volunteer as a JA classroom consultant at Elementary, Middle or High Schools
Elementary School: Set in the framework of a community children learn their roles as workers, consumers, and individuals living in a free enterprise system.
Middle Grades: (Volunteers especially needed here!) Personal Economics—application of business and finance in personal life and Enterprise in Action—how every business starts and grows
High School: JA Economics—classic economic theory applied through computer simulations; volunteers add “real world” perspective and Success Skills—the soft skills of the workplace; building rapport and teamwork
Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay: Impacting local economic education one classroom at a time.
1 Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network’ “2002 Workforce Study: Connecting Today’s Youth with Tomorrow’s Technology Careers”. March 2002. Conducted by A.T. Kearney.
