Throughout the academic year, Luzerne Learns to Work students will have the opportunity to participate in various Junior Achievement programs, including:
JA Inspire Career Discovery Experience, which helps inspire young adults on their pathway to a successful future
JA Company Insight Program, which helps to pair high school students with companies that are willing to provide site tours and job-shadowing opportunities
JA Tomorrow’s Teachers Program, which connects high school students who are interested in pursuing a future teaching career with opportunities to shadow a teacher in their district and teach an elementary classroom program on community involvement, careers, money, and entrepreneurship.
Keystone Coding and Careers, which allows high school students to learn computer science and explore STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) careers with a focus on developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
Junior Achievement of Northeastern PA: YES! (Your Economic Success) Day
A hands-on, interactive morning program where students are exposed to career readiness, entrepreneurship and personal finance related activities, led by community volunteers to help them begin thinking about the importance their education, career, and financial decisions will have on their lives as young adults.
Here are the basics of what YES! Day volunteers need to know:
· Volunteers provide middle school students hands-on learning experience from 8-11:30am (approximately).
· Volunteers will be paired up and assigned to a classroom to deliver one 30-minute activity to four separate groups of students.
· Volunteers do not need any experience in the session they lead — they just need a willingness to present the given material to the students.
· Junior Achievement provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to present the activities, as well as a kit with a script to follow and all materials.
· The students rotate through the activities, volunteers stay in the same classroom presenting their activity to 4 different classes.
· The teacher stays with their class the entire time.
· Volunteers must be at least 18 years old
You can check out this short video created by a teacher at our Hazleton Area YES! Day this past spring for more information
If you are interested in volunteering, please complete our YES! Volunteer Sign-Up Form. If you are looking for more information or to find our current YES! Day schedule of schools, check out our What is a YES! Day? web page.
Questions? Contact Amy Carrozza amy.carrozza@ja.org
