Is BizTown open to the public?

JA BizTown is an indoor center that contains a mini city with up to 23 public and private businesses. Before visiting JA BizTown, students complete a pre-visit curriculum program where they learn basic economic principles such as how to manage their personal bank account.

What is Junior Achievement BizTown?

JA BizTown combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to a simulated town. This popular program allows elementary school students to operate banks, manage restaurants, write checks, and vote for mayor. The program helps students connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world.

Where is Ja Financepark?

The program has been recognized by Harvard University’s Global Education Innovation Initiative as a program with innovative curriculum and best practices related to 21st century skills in financial literacy education. During their visit to JA Finance Park, located inside American Furniture Warehouse at 8501 Grant St.

What can you buy at JA BizTown?

You may buy snacks (popcorn and freshly baked cookies) and soft drinks with JA BizTown cash. How many breaks do I get during the day? Two. On the first one you deposit your paycheck and open a savings account at the bank and then you may choose among other things to do.

How many Biztowns are there?

JA BizTown was first introduced to the Minneapolis/St. Paul market on October 16, 2001. Only 25 markets in the world provide this incredible opportunity for students to experience a real-world, hands-on application of their classroom learning.

Does Junior Achievement still exist?

Nationally, Junior Achievement reaches over 3 million students per year in 127,817 classrooms and after-school locations. JA programs are taught by volunteers in inner cities, suburbs, and rural areas throughout the United States, by 104 Area Offices in all 50 states.

What do you do in Finance Park?

At JA Finance Park, students have the rare opportunity to experience their personal financial futures first-hand. Here, students participate in an immersive simulation that enables them to develop skills to successfully navigate today’s complex economic environment and discover how decisions today can impact tomorrow.

What are the most important things you learned at the JA Finance Park simulation?

Following JA’s unique teacher-led curriculum, students practice newly learned microeconomic concepts and experience first-hand the complexities of managing a monthly budget as an earning, bill-paying adult—with careers, families, salaries, debt and financial obligations—in a one-of-a-kind, online budgeting simulation.

Is Junior Achievement a good charity?

Good. This charity’s score is 85.83, earning it a 3-Star rating. Donors can “Give with Confidence” to this charity.

What is JA Company Program?

JA Company Program unlocks the innate ability in high school students (grades 9-12) to fill a need or solve a problem in their community by launching a business venture and unleashing their entrepreneurial spirit.

What questions do you still have about career and money management?

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