Grade Level

9th - 12th

Time Commitment

Once a week for five to eight consecutive weeks, 45 to 60 minutes per visit

The high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future, and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world.

As high school students begin to position themselves for their future, there are many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. Junior Achievement’s high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future, and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world.

All JA programs are now available for Remote Delivery where volunteers have the option to virtually remote into the classroom or submit a recorded video.

JA All About Cars

9th - 12th Grade

JA All About Cars introduces students to the essential costs related to buying and operating a first car and offers tips on being a smart consumer when purchasing a vehicle.


JA Be Entrepreneurial

(Creative Problem Solving)

9th - 12th Grade

JA Be Entrepreneurial is a reimagined, modular program that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In JA Creative Problem Solving, students learn and apply design thinking, an innovative process for problem solving used by entrepreneurs (and intrapreneurs) to brainstorm customer-centric ideas.


JA Be Entrepreneurial

(Rapid Business Planning)

9th - 12th Grade

JA Be Entrepreneurial is a reimagined, modular program that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In JA Rapid Business Planning, students learn about the Lean Model Canvas, the strategic management template for developing business models.


JA Be Entrepreneurial

(Think Like an Entrepreneur)

9th - 12th Grade

JA Be Entrepreneurial is a reimagined, modular program that teaches students about the mindset and the skills needed for success by aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators who add value to any organization. In JA Think Like an Entrepreneur, students develop a mindset that enables opportunity identification, innovation, value creation, and problem solving.


JA Career Success Blended

9th - 12th Grade

JA Career Success Blended Model is an engaging and comprehensive program that introduces high school students to the workplace. As interns, students participate in realistic work experiences in multiple departments of a fictional company, Orbit Boom. The program teaches soft skills and business best practices in the context of scenarios and assignments.


JA Excellence Through Ethics

6th - 12th Grade

Through JA Excellence through Ethics, students will learn the importance of ethics and ethical decision-making and how ethical and unethical choices affect everyone in a community.


JA Finance Park (Entry Level)

6th -12th Grade

JA Finance Park is Junior Achievement’s capstone program for personal financial planning and career exploration. At the culmination of this teacher-led program, students visit JA Finance Park, a realistic on-site or virtual community, to put into practice what they've learned by developing and committing to a personal budget.


JA Finance Park Advanced

9th -12th Grade

JA Finance Park Advanced is Junior Achievement’s high school capstone curriculum for personal financial planning and career exploration. An advanced curriculum and simulation give high school students a more personal focus. Students select their career and define their future lifestyle and financial goals.


JA High School Heroes

9th - 12th Grade

JA High School Heroes provides leadership development opportunities to high school students who deliver JA programs in elementary schools.


JA It's My Job (Soft Skills)

6th - 12th Grade

JA It's My Job (Soft Skills) will help students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters.


JA Job Shadow

(Blended Model)

9th - 12th Grade

JA Job Shadow Blended Model is a comprehensive experience that helps students design an individualized career path. Supporting blended as well as self-guided activities, JA Job Shadow provides a design-thinking structure for career exploration.


JA Launch Lesson

9th - 12th Grade

JA Launch Lesson is a point-of-entry program delivered by community entrepreneurs. Students gain firsthand knowledge about starting a business and the entrepreneurial journey.


JA Personal Finance 2.0

9th - 12th Grade

JA Personal Finance 2.0 allows students to experience the interrelationship between today’s financial decisions and future financial freedom. To achieve financial health and wellness, they learn about money-management strategies, including earning, employment and income, budgeting, savings, credit and debt, consumer protection, smart shopping, risk management, investing, credit card usage, debt management, and net worth.


JA Take Stock in Your Future

9th - 12th Grade

Through JA Take Stock in Your Future, students discover the benefits and challenges of investing in the stock market as part of a broader, long-term investment strategy and the risks and rewards of trading.


JA Career Exploration Fair

Kinder - 12th Grade

JA Career Exploration Fair is an event where students learn about a range of career options across multiple career clusters.


JA Career Speaker Series

Kinder - 12th Grade

In JA Career Speakers Series, a volunteer guest speaker visits the classroom and shares information about his or her career, work, and education experience.


JA High School Experience

9th - 12th Grade

The JA High School Experience is a series of semester-long, experiential, blended learning courses designed to empower students to own their economic success. Through a combination of instructional approaches, students progress from foundational principles through application, synthesis, and immersion in JA’s three pillars: entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work and career readiness. Rich with partnership and revenue opportunities, students, teachers, school, and corporate partners all benefit.


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