JA Alumni Reunion and

JA Company Student Competition

For more information:
Wendy Walleigh
408-988-8915 x208
wwalleigh@jascc.org

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As part of  50^th Anniversary celebrations, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is holding its First Alumni Reunion and JA Company Student Competition, hosted by Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. 

Date:  Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Where:  1^st Junior Achievement Alumni Reunion and JA Company Student Competition will be held in the Brass Rail Room at the Santa Clara University Benson Center.

Time:  4:00 to 7:00pm with student competition from 4:30 – 6:00pm

What:  As part of our yearlong 50^th Anniversary celebration, Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is holding its First Alumni Reunion and Semi-Annual JA Company Student Competition, hosted by Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.  JA Alumni—students, teachers, and volunteers—will be welcomed from wherever in the world they participated in Junior Achievement.  Alumni and other community members are invited to watch the top 3 JA Company student teams selected from JA Economics classes in area high schools.  Distinguished local business leaders, including Laureates from Junior Achievement’s Business Hall of Fame, will judge the student teams’ presentations and select the top team, whose members will receive a scholarship. 

 

Judges and Examples of Alumni Attending to Date: 

         Maryles Casto—Event Judge, Chair of the 50^th Anniversary Honorary Committee, 1993 Laureate, and CEO of Casto Travel

         Rebecca Guerra—Event Judge, JA Alumna, Trustee of Santa Clara University, and former VP of Riverstone Networks

         Mike Hackworth—Event Judge, JA Alumnus, Member of the 50^th Anniversary Honorary Committee, and Chairman of Cirrus Logic

         Lata Krishnan—Event Judge, 2003 Laureate, President of American India Foundation, and Co-Founder Smart Modular

         Glen McLaughlin—Event Judge, 2003 Laureate, Former JA Board Chairman (during 25^th Anniversary), CEO of Venture Leasing Associates, and Director of Greater Bay Bancorp

         Dan Perez—Event Judge, 2001 Laureate, Member of the 50^th Anniversary Honorary Committee, and former Executive VP of Solectron

         Jay Pinson—Event Judge, 1989 Laureate, Member of the 50^th Anniversary Honorary Committee, and retired VP of Applied Materials Global University

         Ben T. Smith IV—Event M.C., JA Alumnus, JA Board Member, CEO of Spoke Software

Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay is the premier K - 12 economic education organization. Globally, Junior Achievement is the largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization, annually teaching 6 million elementary, middle school and high school students in over 110 countries. Junior Achievement's mission is to ensure that every child in America has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system. Since 1953, Junior Achievement has partnered with businesses, communities and schools from Silicon Valley to Monterey Bay to teach young people the principles of free enterprise so that they understand business and economics and are workforce-ready. Only Junior Achievement teaches K - 12th grade students about the relevance of school to their future success by using community and business role models to bring our classroom programs to life. In multiple classroom visits, these volunteers use their experience and knowledge to help students become workforce-ready by applying critical thinking and school skills to solving real-world problems. As a result, approximately 27,500 children from this past year will impact Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay communities as successful individuals, workers and consumers. Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay: Impacting local economic education one classroom at a time. For more information and to get involved, visit http://www.jascc.org or call 408-988-8915.