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Junior Achievement of Central Md. unveils new BizTown community center
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing young people for career success and financial responsibility, announced Wednesday a $175,000 gift from Wells Fargo for a new storefront in Junior Achievement’s JA BizTown for hands-on learning.
The storefront, called the Wells Fargo Community Center, will enable elementary school students to produce and sell community newspapers documenting their experiences when they spend the day at JA BizTown.
Junior Achievement and Wells Fargo representatives unveiled the Wells Fargo Community Center at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday during a visit from fifth and sixth graders from Lillie May Carroll Jackson School for Girls, a Baltimore charter school.
JA BizTown combines in-class learning with hands-on experience to help students connect the dots between what they learn in school and the real world of work. The program includes 12 classroom lessons covering topics such as banking, the flow of goods and services, free enterprise, applying for a job, budgeting, and more. The JA BizTown program culminates with students running a simulated city economy at the JA Owings Mills facility.
