These business consultants serve as role models and enrich the activities with their own life experiences and business knowledge. Program materials for each theme are packaged in a self-contained briefcase including activity plans, student workbooks and support materials. This program helps students assess their personal skills and interests, explore career options, learn job-hunting skills, and understand the importance and value of education as it applies to quality of life. They also learn about budgets, personal and family financial management, and the use and abuse of credit. Enterprise in Action Business volunteers help students understand the principal characteristics of of the U.S. economic system and the role business plays in it.
Students learn the steps in organizing a business and producing and marketing a product.
This program reinforces U.S. history social studies required standards. The International Marketplace Students learn how they are connected through trade, to people and cultures throughout the world. The program begins with a focus on the resources of selected countries and how they impact their cultures, governments and economic systems. The focus then turns to the benefits of international trade and important international economic issues. The Economics of Staying in School Designed to introduce at-risk students to the benefits of an education, this program explains the financial implications of dropping out of school.