Company Program
Hand over the keys to success. A prosperous community and strong economy is in the hands of our future entrepreneurs and leaders of well-managed companies.
Company Program - A Student Venture inspires high school students to understand the role of business in our society by creating an enterprise of their own. By collaborating with professional volunteer consultants to design, organize and operate a real business, student’s experience how a small enterprise functions. These new entrepreneurs work within the structure of our Canadian economic system and realize the benefits it provides.
Company Program - A Student Venture offers new possibilities for the next generation of successful start-ups.
• Discover the risks and rewards of starting a business
• Systematically solve actual business challenges
• Demonstrate the importance of ethical standards in business
• Foster positive relationships between youth and business communities
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Like other Junior Achievement programs, Company Program- A Student Venture is curriculum-linked, student centered and skills focused. It is facilitated by qualified business volunteers in weekly one or two-hour sessions over the course of 10-16 weeks. The program can be delivered either in-school or after-school at no cost to schools or groups.
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For more information please contact your local Program Manager:
Barb Jones, Lower Mainland
Laura Addinall, Fraser Valley
Deborah Wakeham, Vancouver Island
Beth Veenkamp, Okanagan
Gemma Gowling, Kamloops
Jack Hooper, Northern BC