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Press Releases
November, 2019
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay is creating an entrepreneurship academy and lab with Embarc Collective, the innovation and startup hub slated to be finished by the end of the year in downtown Tampa. The JA Entrepreneurship & Lab at Embarc Collective will educate and encourage middle and high school students within the region about entrepreneurship and innovation.
October, 2019
Innovative high school model proven to accelerate student engagement and academic outcomes in traditional public high schools will launch August 2020
March, 2019
Kane’s Furniture, The Vinik Family Foundation and USAA to be Celebrated
In The Media
January, 2020
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay’s latest initiative that will transform high school education has received a huge investment from Raymond James. 3DE by Junior Achievement, which will launch in four Tampa Bay area high schools in fall 2020, re-engineers high school education to be more relevant, experiential, and authentically-connected to the complexities of the real world.
Click here to read the Tampa Bay Business Journal article.
December, 2019
Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay’s partnership with Embarc Collective gathers more attention across the Tampa Bay Area. Over 35 start-ups are now involved in the state-of-the-art innovation hub, seeking to drove creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and continued growth and development to the Tampa Bay community.
Click here to read the Tampa Bay Business Journal article.
November, 2019
3DE by Junior Achievement High Schools are headed to Tampa Bay!
Click here to read this Tampa Bay Times article.
November, 2019
The programs motivate students by allowing them to learn through real business projects.
August, 2019
June, 2019
We are excited to partner with Embarc Collective as one of 50 national partners to help Tampa Bay's startup talent build bold, scalable, thriving companies.
June, 2019
Junior Achievement (JA) of Tampa Bay recently announced that it has received grants totaling $18,000 to fund JA’s work readiness and financial literacy programming. The grants, from State Farm Insurance, are part of a larger statewide initiative totaling $60,000 that will support Junior Achievement programs in 11 localities throughout Florida, enabling over 5,000 young people to participate in JA’s nationally recognized economic education programs.
May, 2019
This is the second video in a series about the 2019 Pinellas County Schools Summer Internship program. At this event, students learn job skills from Junior Achievement and then have the opportunity to meet and interview with prospective employers from Pinellas County. We meet some of the students vying for the internships and we also meet some employers who are participating in the program
March, 2019
Feb, 2019
Six Honorees to Receive the Junior Achievement National Centennial Leadership Award
Six honorees representing Junior Achievement operations in seven U.S. cities have been named recipients of the Junior Achievement National Centennial Leadership Award by the Junior Achievement USA Board of Directors.
Sept, 2018
Junior Achievement to Deliver JA BizTown Mobile
Junior Achievement will launch a $500,000 fundraising campaign in Alachua County to bring a JA BizTown Mobile experience, presented by CAMPUS USA Credit Union, to Alachua County 5th graders.
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