Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay

Educational programs: the organization offers hands-on, experiential programming and learning to k-12 students, which focuses on financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career & work readiness. During the 2022-2023 school year, ja impacted approx. 44,000 students in 1708 classes, (registering 1,271,283 instructional contact hours across all programs.) Our learning experiences include sequential themes for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students taught in the two capstone experiences and our new public high school educational model. Students learn the basic concepts of business and economics and how education is relevant to the workplace. (see schedule o for continuation)the sequential activities build on studies from each preceeding grade and prepare students for secondary school lifelong learning.

3de:the organization also offers 3de, a new experiential educational model aiming to re-engineer public high school education. 1,750 students were enrolled in 3de across 6 Tampa Bay schools in the 2022-2023 school year. 3de uses case methodology and its core competencies like critical thinking, effective collaboration, engaging communication, and self-direction to teach students relevant skills they can carry beyond their primary education.

The organization offers two capstone programs that provide simulation experiences following in-class curriculum. Approximately 20,200 students visited ja biztown during 2022-2023 school year. Ja biztown provides an engaging, hands-on program that introduces 5th graders to economic concepts, workplace skills, and personal and business finances in a student-sixed town built just for them.approximately 12,700 students visited ja finance park during 2022-2023. Ja finance park engages 8th grade students in the rare opportunity to experience their personal financial futures first-hand. Students participate in an immersive simulation that enables them to develop key skills.