Grade Level
9th - 12th
Time Commitment
Once a week for five to eight consecutive weeks, 45 to 60 minutes per visit
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.
403 E. Ramsey, Suite 201
San Antonio, TX 78216
Phone: 210.490.2007
Fax: 210.490.1548
Email: info@jast.org