OCEAN CITY – Thousands of eighth-grade students from six counties will visit Ocean City later this month for an interactive career exploration event hosted by Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore.
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the entire eighth-grade population of Worcester, Wicomico, Somerset, Dorchester, Caroline and Talbot counties will attend the second annual JA Inspire event at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City.
Throughout the course of the day, roughly 3,000 students will interact with representatives from nearly 140 local businesses to learn about various career paths.
“Part of the problem on the Eastern Shore is not that there’s a lack of jobs, but that there’s a lack of people who are trained to do the jobs that exist …,” Junior Achievement’s Development Manager Lisa Thornton said. “So JA Inspire was our answer to the shortage of skilled employees here on the shore.”
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ReplyDeleteJunior Achievement is a very good program. I was in it 'way back when' and learned a lot of skills that got me into broadcasting later.
What a waste of tax dollars. I hope Bob Culver cuts this silly program from the Wicomico County Budget.
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ReplyDeleteJunior Achievement is a very good program. I was in it 'way back when' and learned a lot of skills that got me into broadcasting later.
February 14, 2020 at 3:10 PM
Please tell us what is so good about it and tell us what your name is so we will know whether you are lying or not!
ReplyDelete"..Please tell us what is so good about it and tell us what your name is so we will know whether you are lying or not! "
As it happens, cupcake, I'm not from the shore, so I guess you wouldn't know if I was lying or not (not that I have to prove it to you anyway..)
We were guided through planning, writing and producing a number of radio programs that were aired on the station where we were. We were taught how to get sponsors. We were even taught how to run production equipment and edit the audio (which involved cutting and splicing tapes beck then.)
And we learned respect for authority in working with adult volunteer instructors who were very busy people and didn't have to be doing what they were doing, so they didn't accept much less than that.
I ended up as the operations/sales manager of a 50,000-watt FM station.
But JA is just a waste of money, I guess. Besides, being in JA would probably interfere with doing drugs and being in a gang, because they'd be too busy learning life skills to go out and get into that kind of trouble.
We wouldn't want that, would we, cupcake?
711 why waste time. These are the same clowns wondering why their kids are hooked on opiods
ReplyDeleteActual teacher here commenting.., I don’t know all about the program known as JA, but the event at the Civic Center last year was of very high quality. Thinking it would be a waste of time (8th graders aren’t easily impressed) it turned out to be one of the most enlightening things they did all year.
ReplyDeleteActual teacher here commenting.., I don’t know all about the program known as JA, but the event at the Civic Center last year was of very high quality. Thinking it would be a waste of time (8th graders aren’t easily impressed) it turned out to be one of the most enlightening things they did all year. According to the teachers who are forced to implement it in class, the lessons, the workbooks, now I think they definitely see that as wasteful spending, but I myself haven’t experienced that. But the career day experience was well managed and kids “got it.”
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