Education
Junior Achievement of Greater Reading and Lehigh Valley
aka Junior Achievement of Berks County, formerly known as Junior Achievement of Lehigh Valley, Inc.
mission
Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the business of life. In partnership with business and educators, Junior Achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential and preparing them for the world of work.

address
Junior Achievement of Greater Reading and Lehigh Valley
1150 Glenlivet Drive, C-35
Allentown, PA 18106contact
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ELEMENTARY
Ourselves® - This popular program represents their first real foray into the economics of life – work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Our Families® - Children tend to think everything they want is something they need. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is one of the first crucial lessons in financial literacy. By focusing on the roles people play in their local economy, students understand the importance of work and the tools and skills to get or earn what they want.
Our Community® - Understanding life outside of home and school begins with students taking a look at how things work in their communities. This program puts community life into perspective for students as they explore matters of business, citizenship, economics and the interdependent roles of people working in a community.
Our City® - City life comes into sharp context through Our City, a program designed to inspire student exploration of the relationship between the jobs people perform, the skills they need to perform these jobs and the impact their work has on a city’s well-being.
Our Region® - This program introduces students to the relationship between natural, human and capital resources found in different regions and explores regional businesses that produce goods and services.
Our Nation® - This program introduces students to how businesses operate in the United States. Students will role play business ownership, interview for jobs and learn different methods of production, while navigating various economic barriers that test and develop their business instincts.
JA Afterschool™ JA More than Money™ - What good is earning money if young people aren’t taught how to save, spend, and share it? This program instills these essential skills in students, and shows them how entrepreneurial thinking and financial savvy can transform an idea into a business that can generate jobs and wealth for themselves and their communities.
Capstone Experience JA BizTown™ – The program combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to JA World™ - a fully interactive simulated town facility. JA BizTown helps students connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
JA Global Marketplace® - Like those sneakers? They’re made in China with rubber from the Brazilian Amazon, cotton for India, color dye from Vietnam and recycled plastic bottles from Honduras. Practical examples like this one help students gain perspective into how goods flow in the global economy and the effect globalization has on students’ lives.
JA Economics for Success® - This program provides an opportunity for students to begin asking life questions and exploring how their academic, economic and ethical choices affect their lives.
JA America Works™ - In this program, students learn about the history of American entrepreneurship and its vital role in business and the nation’s economic development.
JA Afterschool™ JA It’s My Business!® - This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
Capstone Experience - JA Finance Park™ - An exhilarating hands-on, realistic, site-based experience, lets students walk in an adult’s shoes for a day. The in-class learning and day-long experience teaches students the importance of making intelligent, personal financial decisions throughout their lives.
HIGH SCHOOL
JA Be Entrepreneurial™ - New – The challenge – start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school. JA Be Entrepreneurial dispels entrepreneurship myths, gives students the essential tools needed to develop a business plan, and the inspiration to take innovative action and successfully compete in the world’s marketplace.
JA Economics™ - This program reinforces concepts of micro- and macro- economics by having students explore the basic characteristics of the U.S. economic system and how economic principles influence business decisions.
JA Exploring Economics™ - Through hands-on classroom activities, JA Exploring Economics fosters lifelong skills and knowledge about how the economy works, including micro-, macro-, personal, and international economics. Students learn about the importance of international trade and the effects of inflation.
JA Titan™ - Built as a web-based simulation, high schoolers run a virtual company. Whether that means running it into the ground or to high profits depends on the quarterly business decisions they make about their product price, marketing, R & D and more.
JA Banks in Action® – Demystifies finance by explaining how a bank works and having students operate a computer-simulated bank with their classmates.
JA Success Skills® – Students participate in challenging exercises to help them develop personal strategies to achieve lifelong learning pursuits and career opportunities.
JA Careers with a Purpose® – Introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose.
JA Business Ethics™ - Is designed to foster ethical decision-making in students as they prepare to enter the workforce and the global marketplace.
The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program™ – New – Introduces students to the importance of making wise financial choices. Students explore the role that money plays in achieving personal goals throughout life.
JA Afterschool™ JA Company Program® has students put theory to practice by developing their own money-making businesses, from concept to business plan, financing, execution, sales and ultimately, growth or demise.
Capstone Experience JA Job Shadow™ - One of JA’s best known work readiness programs – gives students a “day-at-the-office” experience by pairing high school students with members from their local business community.
Locations:
Allentown
Bethlehem
Catasauqua
Easton
Nazareth
Northampton
Northwestern
Northern Lehigh
Parkland
Pen Argyl
Saucon Valley
Whitehall
Wilson
Ourselves® - This popular program represents their first real foray into the economics of life – work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Our Families® - Children tend to think everything they want is something they need. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is one of the first crucial lessons in financial literacy. By focusing on the roles people play in their local economy, students understand the importance of work and the tools and skills to get or earn what they want.
Our Community® - Understanding life outside of home and school begins with students taking a look at how things work in their communities. This program puts community life into perspective for students as they explore matters of business, citizenship, economics and the interdependent roles of people working in a community.
Our City® - City life comes into sharp context through Our City, a program designed to inspire student exploration of the relationship between the jobs people perform, the skills they need to perform these jobs and the impact their work has on a city’s well-being.
Our Region® - This program introduces students to the relationship between natural, human and capital resources found in different regions and explores regional businesses that produce goods and services.
Our Nation® - This program introduces students to how businesses operate in the United States. Students will role play business ownership, interview for jobs and learn different methods of production, while navigating various economic barriers that test and develop their business instincts.
JA Afterschool™ JA More than Money™ - What good is earning money if young people aren’t taught how to save, spend, and share it? This program instills these essential skills in students, and shows them how entrepreneurial thinking and financial savvy can transform an idea into a business that can generate jobs and wealth for themselves and their communities.
Capstone Experience JA BizTown™ – The program combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to JA World™ - a fully interactive simulated town facility. JA BizTown helps students connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
JA Global Marketplace® - Like those sneakers? They’re made in China with rubber from the Brazilian Amazon, cotton for India, color dye from Vietnam and recycled plastic bottles from Honduras. Practical examples like this one help students gain perspective into how goods flow in the global economy and the effect globalization has on students’ lives.
JA Economics for Success® - This program provides an opportunity for students to begin asking life questions and exploring how their academic, economic and ethical choices affect their lives.
JA America Works™ - In this program, students learn about the history of American entrepreneurship and its vital role in business and the nation’s economic development.
JA Afterschool™ JA It’s My Business!® - This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
Capstone Experience - JA Finance Park™ - An exhilarating hands-on, realistic, site-based experience, lets students walk in an adult’s shoes for a day. The in-class learning and day-long experience teaches students the importance of making intelligent, personal financial decisions throughout their lives.
HIGH SCHOOL
JA Be Entrepreneurial™ - New – The challenge – start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school. JA Be Entrepreneurial dispels entrepreneurship myths, gives students the essential tools needed to develop a business plan, and the inspiration to take innovative action and successfully compete in the world’s marketplace.
JA Economics™ - This program reinforces concepts of micro- and macro- economics by having students explore the basic characteristics of the U.S. economic system and how economic principles influence business decisions.
JA Exploring Economics™ - Through hands-on classroom activities, JA Exploring Economics fosters lifelong skills and knowledge about how the economy works, including micro-, macro-, personal, and international economics. Students learn about the importance of international trade and the effects of inflation.
JA Titan™ - Built as a web-based simulation, high schoolers run a virtual company. Whether that means running it into the ground or to high profits depends on the quarterly business decisions they make about their product price, marketing, R & D and more.
JA Banks in Action® – Demystifies finance by explaining how a bank works and having students operate a computer-simulated bank with their classmates.
JA Success Skills® – Students participate in challenging exercises to help them develop personal strategies to achieve lifelong learning pursuits and career opportunities.
JA Careers with a Purpose® – Introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose.
JA Business Ethics™ - Is designed to foster ethical decision-making in students as they prepare to enter the workforce and the global marketplace.
The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program™ – New – Introduces students to the importance of making wise financial choices. Students explore the role that money plays in achieving personal goals throughout life.
JA Afterschool™ JA Company Program® has students put theory to practice by developing their own money-making businesses, from concept to business plan, financing, execution, sales and ultimately, growth or demise.
Capstone Experience JA Job Shadow™ - One of JA’s best known work readiness programs – gives students a “day-at-the-office” experience by pairing high school students with members from their local business community.
Locations:
Allentown
Bethlehem
Catasauqua
Easton
Nazareth
Northampton
Northwestern
Northern Lehigh
Parkland
Pen Argyl
Saucon Valley
Whitehall
Wilson
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