JAA - Economics Program

Reward

We congratulate Cynthia Tusan, our founder and Armine K. Hovannisian, Executive Director of JAA on receiving the Hope Makes the World Light Up Award by the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America for their immense work in the field of education.

In the photo: right to left, Ashod and Matevos Mheryan, former students of JAA , Hasmik Keyribarian, Armine K. Hovannisian, Alice Petrosian, Cynthia Tusan and Christine Tusan.

Women and Girls in STEM Forum

The team of the Junior Achievement of Armenia is already in Brussels.

This morning, the team of the Junior Achievements of Armenia organization arrived in Brussels to participate in the #WomenAndGirlsInSTEMForum. The team included the representatives of the Central School of Dilijan: teacher Davit Hovhannisyan and students Mane Mantashyan, Larisa Davtyan, and Arevi Babayan.

Girls Go Circular’s annual flagship event unites young girls, educators, and decision-makers to delve into pressing issues concerning #genderdiversity within STEM and ICT in Europe. It offers young talents from 15 countries to engage in a student challenge to address environmental challenges and find possible solutions.

Click on the link to secure your spot for the live-streamed event, that will take place on 5th December!

https://eit-girlsgocircular.eu/women-and-girls-in-stem.../

European Commission EIT RawMaterials EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology #WomenInSTEM #WGSF23 #EITCommunity

Junior Achievement of Armenia's (JAA) economics program teaches students to understand and appreciate free enterprise and entrepreneurism. We recognize that as high school students begin to position themselves for their future, there are many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. JAA’s economics course helps students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future, and fosters skills that will be highly useful in the business world and global economy.

We accomplish our goals through curriculum-aligned textbooks, community outreach, and extracurricular programs. Our students use Junior Achievement’s internationally-recognized Applied Economics textbook that has been translated into Armenian and edited to complement JAA’s curriculum and represent the local experience. From the community at-large, we bring volunteer business people, including local Rotarians, into the classroom to share their real-life experiences with students. Each year, we also offer our acclaimed summer camp to JAA’s highest achievers and the summer study abroad program to Armenia’s top high school students.

Since 1999, JAA has enrolled its students in a special program organized by Junior Achievement Worldwide, called the Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge or HPGBC. HPGBC is a high school, Internet-based program that teaches the principles of international business competition and the practical and decision-making skills necessary to function in a democratic society. Students participate as teams and compete with their peers around the world using a special Junior Achievement software program.

Today, JAA operates over 760 economics classes throughout Armenia, where we reach more than 23,000 students annually. Combined with our civics program, JAA impacts 170,000 young people each year in every region of the Republic. We are proud to have played a significant role in promoting a pro-business climate and affecting an attitude shift among the students participating in our program. The majority of our graduates pursue economics and business programs in their university studies and state that our program has positively influenced their academic and professional aspirations.