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JA Be Entrepreneurial®
A flexible three-part modular series where high school students transform creative ideas into real-world ventures. Through customer discovery, competitive analysis, rapid prototyping, and market testing, students build foundational business models and gain essential entrepreneurial skills.
- JA Think Like an Entrepreneur®: Explore key characteristics of successful innovators, cultivate a growth mindset, and complete a personal self-assessment to unlock their entrepreneurial potential.
- JA Creative Problem Solving®: Master the Design Thinking process to solve human-centered problems, moving from empathy mapping and ideation to rapid prototyping and user testing.
- JA Rapid Business Planning®: Build actionable, one-page business plans using the Lean Canvas model by defining target customers, value propositions, and financial models.
JA Be Entrepreneurial® Overview
JA Company Program®
An immersive, hands-on enterprise experience where students launch and operate a real business venture. Available as a full-semester program or an accelerated pop-up, students handle everything from product ideation and capital funding to team leadership, marketing, sales, and final liquidation.
JA Take Stock in Your Future®
This program introduces high school students to the foundational mechanics of the stock market and the broader world of investing. Through a structured curriculum, students explore how equity markets operate, analyze how current events and global news impact stock prices, and weigh the historical risks and rewards of trading.
Rather than viewing the market in isolation, the curriculum teaches students to view stock ownership as one piece of a comprehensive, long-term personal investment strategy. For many participants, the classroom lessons culminate in the JA Stock Market Challenge, a high-energy simulation event where students put their knowledge to the test by trading in a live, fast-paced market environment.
JA Take Stock in Your Future® Overview
JA Personal Finance®
This program demonstrates the powerful relationship between today’s financial habits and future economic freedom. Designed to foster long-term financial health and wellness, the curriculum covers a comprehensive suite of practical money-management topics. Students explore the realities of earning an income, building actionable budgets, navigating savings and investing, understanding credit cards, managing debt responsibly, and protecting themselves as consumers.
By analyzing how personal financial choices serve as the foundation for meeting life’s needs and wants, students gain the critical thinking skills necessary to actively improve their overall quality of life and build future net worth.
Core Outcomes: Students will learn to evaluate how individual financial habits dictate their lifestyle options, master the mechanics of building a balanced budget, and analyze the long-term impact of credit, debt, and asset accumulation.
JA Economics for Success®
A six-session, volunteer-supported program that connects educational and career choices directly to financial independence. Students explore how personal decisions impact earning potential, living costs, post-secondary education investments, and unexpected life expenses.
JA Economics For Success® Overview
JA Mainstreet AI
A multi-week project or semester unit where students build practical AI skills and partner directly with local small business cohorts. Student teams collaborate with local business owners to design, test, and deploy customized AI tools for operational and marketing needs.
JA Job Shadow®
A half-day workplace experience or virtual cohort that connects students with local industry environments. Participants tour job sites, observe daily operations, and gain direct industry exposure through small-group professional mentoring.
JA Career Success®
A flexible 5- to 7-session program facilitated by business volunteers. Focused on fundamental career readiness skills, students develop effective resumes, practice interviewing, and build core competencies in collaboration, critical thinking, and workplace adaptability.
JA Future Ready Leaders™
A multi-session leadership cohort designed to equip students with critical soft skills for high school, college, and career success. Participants practice public speaking, self-advocacy, and project leadership through collaborative, practical activities.
JA Future Ready Leaders™ Overview
JA High School Heroes®
A service-learning leadership assignment where high school students learn and apply real-world leadership skills. Participants undergo formal training in public speaking and classroom management, then teach hands-on JA curriculum to local elementary school classrooms.
JA High School Heroes® Overview
San Francisco Bay University (SFBU) Partnership
A specialized partnership program offering year-round campus visits, collegiate workshops, and exclusive scholarship access for JA Northern California students preparing for higher education
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