Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain.

• Author: Lewis, David
• Position: NONPROFIT - Brief article

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC. does what it can to fill an almost infinite space, the gap between what our schools teach and what goes on in the real world.

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By "real world" we mean the place where the jobs are, variously known as business, the private sector, free enterprise, and so on. Junior Achievement teaches school kids from kindergarten through high school about economic concepts, financial literacy, critical thinking and teamwork.

These subjects are not taught in many schools, public and private. Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain does much to fill the abyss.

JA-Rocky Mountain annually brings more than 3,200 business volunteers into classrooms throughout Metro Denver, Northern Colorado and Wyoming. Denver- and Fort Collins-based Junior Achievement has grown 10-fold in the past two decades under the leadership of Robin Wise, who is Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain president and CEO as well as a JA instructor at Denver South High School.

JA-Rocky Mountain in the 2009-2010 school year taught 95,000 students, the latest figures available, up...