Flagstaff County is sponsoring a Junior Achievement (JA) Company Program for the second year in a row.
JA is a program dedicated to educating students about work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.
They are active in 122 countries, reaching 9.7 million students a year, and 17,000 in Alberta alone.
The Company Program is an 18-week program where students will create a company, incorporate it and fund it by selling shares, design, produce and market a product, establish sales goals, monitor the company’s progress while maintaining financial records, compile an annual report for shareholders, pay dividends, and liquidate the company.
The Flagstaff JA company program started six weeks ago, and the group has already picked a name, Hot Rockz, based on the product they have designed, a trivet for hot pots made of natural rocks and stones on cork.
Read the rest of the story in the March 19, 2013 Edition of The Community Press, on newsstands now!
