Huntington National Bank spent the day with Pine Street fifth-graders Wednesday, implementing the Junior Achievement program in which students learned about entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy.
Each classroom had a volunteer from Huntington to deliver the program.
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chievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
JA’s approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver the curriculum while sharing their experiences with students. Embodying the heart of JA, classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world.
PHOTO: (From left) Noah Darling, Amber Swisher and Mason Hozeska work with Aaron Griffin from Huntington Bank. (Photo courtesy Laurie Zywiczynski)
The JA programs are excellent at providing economic, financial literacy, and free-enterprise educational information to students. It enables them to think about what opportunities await them after finishing school and how what they are learning will apply to their lives. United Bank staff has been partnering with the Wayland and Hopkins school districts for over 20 years in bringing this information to students. I encourage anyone to visit the JA website to see how you can add to students’ lives through being in the classroom.