Junior Achievement Summer Camp Registration

Throughout their week at JA Finance Park Summer Camp, campers will explore careers and money management through team building and engaging activities. Discover your career pathway through guided self-exploration with real work experience through a life simulation. Campers will build a foundation to make intelligent lifelong financial decisions, related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.

• Monday – My Life-Got Skills?
• Tuesday – My Life-Pay Myself First?
• Wednesday – My Life-The Cost of Credit
• Thursday – My Life-”Riches to Rags”...Not Me!
• Friday – Simulation and My Life Presentations

Throughout their week at JA BizTown Summer Camp, campers will jump start their entrepreneurial spirit through daily lessons, hands-on activities, and team building games. Explore key economic concepts and job readiness skills preparing for the real world. Campers will discover unique personality traits, explore employment soft skills and build a resume to interview for jobs in JA BizTown.

• Monday – Financial Literacy
• Tuesday – Community and Economy
• Wednesday – Work Readiness
• Thursday – Business Management
• Friday – Simulation

Throughout their week at Camp CEO Summer Camp, campers will create a business plan which will be presented to senior management professionals at the conclusion of the week. Over the course of the week, students utilize brainstorming, collaborating with peers, access mini-seminars and workshops, and learn from business leaders and trained volunteer mentors. Develop the technical and soft skills needed to not only become successful entrepreneurs, but also to meet the demands of a rapidly changing economy in a variety of professions and careers.

• Monday - Design thinking and ideation
• Tuesday - Research and Prototyping
• Wednesday - Develop a Lean Business Model
• Thursday - Build the Business
• Friday - Pitch competition

NEW: Adaptive Career Readiness Summer Camp

In partnership with the Down Syndrome Assocation of Greater Carolinas, JA of Central Carolinas engages students with different abilities in an inclusive summer camp experience. Throughout their week at JA BizTown Adaptive Career Readiness Summer Camp, campers with different skill sets from their peers will work on developing and practicing life skills in hands-on, interactive citizenship role-play that encourages future independent living and career adaptation. This adult-centered approach seeks to foster empowerment for campers to utilize healthy social and interpersonal skills, self-regulation during potentially overwhelming and overstimulating career centered-life activities, advocation for unique needs, and mindfulness for self-care.

Campers will work together on team building games, role-playing employment skills, raising confidence in their strengths for a work force, as well as practicing reading, writing, math, multitasking, and motor skills. Campers will gain valuable experience in writing resumes, working in a team environment, self-regulation in a workplace, and more day-to-day life abilities because all students deserve to feel proud, capable, hopeful, and included in their futures.

NOTE: Students must not have any significant behavioral issues and be able to be independent in the bathroom. This camp does require active engagement. Please contact ctaylor@jacarolinas.org if you are unsure if this camp is the best fit for your student.