This program helps grade 8 students explore the concepts of success, independence and employment and shows the importance of education in preparing them for the future.

With the guidance of a classroom teacher and a volunteer business consultant, students learn about the relationship between education and personal goals. They create budgets, learn to understand the costs of living on their own, and they explore different career options.

If you would like to sponsor a class, get your school involved, or volunteer to lead a class, please contact JA Sarnia info@jasarnia.org

• Facilitate 4 modules in one day
• Bring practical business expertise and life experiences to the program to reinforce the theories being taught.
• Help the students to understand objectives, create strategies, think critically, and make interesting presentations.
• Help teach the students about teamwork and the enterprise system while simultaneously allowing them to develop skills they can use later in their personal and business lives.
• Follow the guidelines provided by Junior Achievement in order to meet the program objectives.

Volunteer Benefits:

Ask any Junior Achievement volunteer, and they will tell you: “You gain more than you give.” From professional skill building to personal development and reward, becoming a Junior Achievement volunteer, or expanding your participation is a “win-win” situation.

Benefits include:

• An enriching experience
• Increased self-confidence
• Sharpened written and verbal communication skills, time management and organizational skills
• Interaction with the youth of the next generation
• An enlarged sense of community and social responsibility

In short, if you invest your time with Junior Achievement, you will return to work refreshed, invigorated and better prepared to put your leadership skills into practice. Equally important, you will gain great satisfaction knowing that you have fostered a positive relationship between our youth and business, and that you contributed to the enrichment of your community. REGISTER ONLINE OR DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM HERE

Volunteer Time:

Approximately 8 hours per volunteer, includes training, preparation and program delivery

• Program Objective:

To help students understand the importance of an education and the personal and economic costs of dropping out of school.


• Target Grade:

Grade 8.


• Delivery:

One full school day and relates his/her personal experience to the class.

• Program Content:
• Keys to success. A board game is used to illustrate the fact that there are opportunities everywhere.
• Students identify the cost of independence and living on their own.
• A comparison of salaries for high school drop outs, college graduates, university graduates and trade school graduates.
• Students role play as they learn how to conduct a proper interview, and learn how to put together a resume for their first job.