Event Listing for Features and Community Calendar
On Monday, September 22, 2003 at Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose, golfers will be teeing up for Junior Achievement's 14th Annual Golf Classic, presented by FedEx Freight. The expected 150 golfers' will have cartfuls of fun and prizes while helping prepare tomorrow's local workforce with Junior Achievement's classroom programs.
Date: Monday, September 22, 2003
Where: Silver Creek Valley Golf & Country Club in San Jose
Time: Registration begins 9:30am, lunch 12:00n, then golf, 6:00pm reception, 7:00pm dinner and auction
What: The Millikin and Pomeroy JA in a Day events are part of Junior Achievement of Silicon Valley and 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 - 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, 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.
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