$500 will provide a class of 25 students at Minneapolis Edison High School with the JA Titan experience, teaching them the dynamics of successful business. An online business simulation focused on encouraging entrepreneurship, creative thinking and problem solving, JA Titan serves as an engaging mechanism to open the minds of high school students to future potential. Minneapolis Edison students will benefit from Titan's connection of continued education to success in business.
Today's businesses want to ensure that tomorrow's workers, who currently in classrooms across the region, are adequately educated and equipped with professional skills that can lead their company into the future. This is particularly important in the Twin Cities urban core, where many students come from economically challenged backgrounds that can create barriers to future success. Minneapolis Edison is a school within this area where students can benefit from enhanced learning opportunities.
Through their participation in the JA Titan program, Minneapolis Edison students will be equipped with the skills and knowledge that reflect success in the business world. The program is uniquely designed to foster creativity, test leadership skills and demonstrate the competitive nature of the free enterprise system while highlighting educations critical role in the process. Through JA Titan, Minneapolis Edison students will get tools that will help them succeed in school and life.
It's been proven that students who receive JA six times during their school career are 90% more likely to graduate from high school. The goal of our project will be for youth to develop attitudes aligned with high school graduation and 21st century skills that prepare them for success. In addition, JA programs improve student academic performance and achievement leading to increased graduation rates.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
