Spring Scholarship Deadline Approaching

Each Spring, Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail awards scholarships to area high school seniors who have participated in a Junior Achievement program within our franchise. The student must complete the application form, meet the minimum GPA requirement (3.0), submit their SAT/ACT scores and participate in an interview with the scholarship committee. Applications are available online at http://www.jafortworth.org/ or from the JA teacher. The deadline to apply is April 7, 2010.

Register for the National Financial Literacy Challenge!

Attention teachers and students!

April has been designated as Financial Literacy Month and JA encourages you to participate in the National Financial Capability Challenge. The "Challenge" is an awards program designed to increase the financial knowledge and capability of high school-aged youth across the U.S. so they can take control over their financial futures.

This is a free program facilitated by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Treasury. To view more information about this exciting challenge and to register, please go to http://www.challenge.treas.gov/about.aspx.

Please contact Jenny at the JA office if you have questions - jsenter@jafortworth.org

JA Embraces Outcome-Based Digital Learning

"Colorado Springs, Colo. – Junior Achievement (JA) will convene the first meeting of its Digital Strategy Advisory Task Force in the Washington, D.C., area next week. JA programs are designed to build young people’s capacity to spur economic development and to engage them actively in the teaching and learning process. The Task Force will serve in an advisory role; it will define an action plan around the use of technology in Junior Achievement’s future program development and delivery, with a goal of applying the learning to drive systemic change in K-12 work-readiness education."

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Wrapping Up the Fall Semester

Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail is completing a very successful fall semester. During fall of 2009, JA operated in 617 classrooms reaching 12,310 students in Tarrant, Parker, Johnson, Wise and Erath counties. Thank you to the 585 dedicated individuals who volunteered to lead these JA programs. You are really making a difference in the life of a child.

For information on how you can volunteer during the spring semester at an elementary, middle, or high school near you, contact lclingman@jafortworth.org.