Junior Achievement brings volunteers into the classroom to teach students about economics and the business world that will help students achieve a successful future.

Every year, RSCC sponsors Junior Achievement Day at Seymour School in East Granby, where employees volunteer time with 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders.  For me, I was lucky enough to be part of the 2014 volunteering experience in my own community.  These were kids I knew from coaching youth sports, and being younger siblings of my own children's friends.

My goal that day was to teach a classroom of 5th graders about the impact of global competition on business needs for employees and production materials, and that businesses need individuals with skills that are in demand in the workplace.  They learned about entrepreneurship, as well as the different types of resources needed in business.

The materials we used that day did not come from my imagination, but from a prepackaged curriculum developed by Junior Achievement.  Their programs are delivered at no cost to the students or volunteers, because every child should be given the opportunity for a bright future.

I will be bowling in the 4th Annual RSCC Bowl-a-Thon on February 7, 2017.  Our goal is to raise money for Junior Achievement of Southern New England, in an effort to help them reach more than 41,000 students throughout Connecticut.

Thank you for supporting our cause!