Applied Materials

JA in a Day

Sunnyvale

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

Event Listing for Features and Community Calendar
Applied Materials (Santa Clara) adopts Pomeroy and Millikin Elementary Schools in the Santa Clara Unified School Districts for Wednesday, July 16, 2003. Their trainees and employees will teach Junior Achievement (JA) programs at these elementary schools during the summer session. As part of JA in a Day, Applied Material participants will teach all five 45-minute Junior Achievement classes in just one day instead of the normal 5-week timeframe.

Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Where: Milliken Elementary School at 2720 Sonoma Place, Santa Clara and Pomeroy Elementary School at 1250 Pomeroy Avenue, Santa Clara

Time: 8:45am to 12:00pm

What: The Millikin and Pomeroy JA in a Day events are part of Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay's record-breaking 22 JA in a Days during the 2002-2003 school year. As a long-time partner, Applied Materials is consistently one of JA's largest volunteer sources. Each of Applied Material's new-employee training sessions includes a capstone JA in a Day event where mostly young engineers get into the classroom to teach children for their first time. During the JA in a Day, students at each grade level complete all 5 JA program modules that would normally span a 5-week timeframe. The Applied Material employees gain insight into how young students learn and about our local school system. The Milliken and Pomeroy students benefit from the both JA activities AND the diverse role models who introduce them to how business and communities work as well as opportunities and careers in high tech.

Event and Media Contact
Wendy Walleigh, wwalleigh@jascc.org, 408-988-8915 x208 and also to learn about other Junior Achievement 50th Anniversary celebrations.

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 over 350,000 young people the principles of free enterprise so that they understand business and economics and are workforce-ready. Only Junior Achievement teaches K - 12^th 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, over 31,000 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.