Students from across the greater Austin area had the opportunity to learn about and implement the skills they learned in JA entrepreneurship programs, JA It's My Business!® and JA Company Program®
Students pitched big ideas and started and ran companies selling spirit buttons, custom Henley t-shirts, snacks, coffee at popup shops, and more! Participating in JA entrepreneurship experiences creates bold thinkers able to work in teams to solve problems. They learn about themselves, their strengths, and how they can lean on others for work that is not their strength.
It is these concepts of convergent / divergent thinking, design thinking, pivoting when things don’t work, problem solving that creates not only entrepreneurs but the future workforce for jobs that haven’t even been created yet.
Thank you to Austin Independent School District, Oracle, AB Private Credit Investors, and H-E-B for all you do to make these opportunities possible.
Thank you to all of our amazing entrepreneurship volunteers. This is no easy task to take on for our volunteers to allocate 2+ hours (with Austin traffic) each week for 7 to 15 weeks but they do! They step up and show up for our community’s young people. We are alway so inspired by their dedication to helping the next generation.
