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 spring, RSCC sponsors Junior Acheivement 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 employeees and production materials, and that buisnesses 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 Acheivement.  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 3rd Annual RSCC Bowl-a-Thon on December 3, 2015.  Our goal is to raise money for Junior Acheivement of Southern New England, in an effort to help them reach more than 36,000 students throughout Connecticut.

Thank you for supporting our cause!

Rick Newhall