Contribute something real and of value to your community. Teams of students manage baseball cap companies and compete against teams from all over Southern Alberta. This program allows students to experience the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship by starting and operating a classroom-based business enterprise. Students establish goals, prepare a business plan, conduct market research, raise capital, and manufacture and market a product or service. This program has students apply economic concepts to a computerized business management situation.
Students work in teams to make decisions regarding their company's operation.
Concepts explored include pricing, production, marketing, capital investment, and research and development. In this after-school program, students operate their own company. With the help of volunteer advisors from the corporate community, students establish goals, raise capital, prepare a business plan and financial statements, manufacture a product or service, develop marketing strategies, liquidate the company, distribute dividends and issue a report to shareholders. Volunteers are required to attend a training session for each program. Junior Achievement has a place for you if you want to make a difference in the life of a young person.