Category Archives: JA Business Week

2011 JA Business Week off to a great start!

JA Business Week was off to a strong start today! The Johnson & Wales University campus welcomed 172 students, who arrived from 55 high schools across Colorado.  Students and their families were greeted with ideal weather (not like last year’s rainstorm!).
The opening ceremony featured Denon Moore, founder of Cake Crumbs Bakery and the Denver Cupcake [...]

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JA Alumni are Valedictorians and Salutatorians

Two Junior Achievement student alumni were honored as valedictorian and salutatorian for North High School, graduating class of 2010. Bao Doan, valedictorian, was a two-time JA Business Week participant. Salutatorian Aaron Janicke was involved in the JA Company Program at North, attended JA Business Week in 2008 and served as a student ambassador at the [...]

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Yesterday at JA Business Week - Student Perspective

Today was our last day of planning for all events! All project plans, executive summaries, and PowerPoint presentations were due Thursday at 6:30 PM. We had company meetings from 2:30 to 6:30 to finalize projects and practice presentations. However in the morning we met in the auditorium to learn how to “Protect Your Finances” with [...]

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Tinker Toy Experiment

The purpose of this exercise is to expose participants to the impact of different leadership styles on the effectiveness and success of a team.  Each team is lead by a volunteer who takes on a specific leadership role (listed below), are charged with constructing a list of products and then selling those products.  The success [...]

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JA Business Week Day 3 Student Perspective

Hey All! This is Lauren and Adam once again with our JA Business Week Blog. Today, starting with year 1, companies A-M took field trips to many Jamba Juices across the city. They gathered information on the production of Jamba Juice smoothies which helped with their efforts to create a new Jamba Juice smoothie flavor. Next, second [...]

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