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With the support and guidance of volunteer consultants from local businesses, the JA Company program provides basic economic education for high school students. By organizing and operating an actual business enterprise, students learn how businesses function, and about the structure of the U.S. free enterprise system and the benefits it provides. At the JA Student Company Competitions, held in the fall and in the spring, the leadership teams of these student-run companies compete for scholarships by presenting their products, business plans and entrepreneurial challenges to a stellar panel of judges. The students also interact in small groups with the judges — CEOs, board chairmen, and company founders who have helped Silicon Valley gain its global standing and together offer hundreds of years of accumulated business insight.
Last year, teams from Yerba Buena, Foothill, and
Oak Grove
High Schools in San Jose, and
Fremont and Homestead
High Schools in Sunnyvale, experienced this only-in-Silicon-Valley opportunity. Yerba Buena’s teams were the official winners of both events last year, but all of these students had an experience most business people would envy, and one they will carry with them throughout their lives.
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