Thanks to the energy and dedication of educators Pamela Hummel (O'Connor High School) and Larry Sanchez (Tuloso Midway High School); and volunteers Lacreeda Guerrero (Citi) and Todd Davis (Flint Hills Resources) two teams from south Texas have advanced to the national finals in two JA online competitions.

 

EMO Bank, a team of students from O'Connor High School in San Antonio was the top qualifier and will travel to New York City on July 16-17 to compete in the 2007 JA Banks in Action North American Competition sponsored by the Citi Foundation. This face-to-face challenge will have teams competing in a multi-round elimination event and will ultimately determine the best JA student bankers in North America!

Each year JA Worldwide conducts a national JA TITAN competition. Holo Tech, four students from Tuloso Midway High School in Corpus Christi earned the right to advance to the national JA TITAN finals at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. This team of students emerged as one of the top eight teams in the country. They were able to accomplish this by accurately balancing supply and demand of their product through the use of pricing strategies, smart production goals, and managing marketing and R&D to best stimulate demand for their product.

We wish both teams well at their respective competitions this summer!

 

JA's Summer Programs are dedicated to meeting the need for quality, educational, out-of-school-time programming. JA is proud to work with 24 partners to deliver a variety of JA's K-12th grade business and economic programs to create rich, engaging summer program experiences for children throughout south Texas. Two featured programs include:

• JA Dollars & $ense™ teaches personal financial and business skills through activities that focus on earning, sharing, saving, and spending money.
• JA It's My Business™ teaches entrepreneurship skills through activities that focus on filling a need, knowing your customer and product, being creative and innovative, and believing in yourself.

Over 8,500 children participate in JA's Summer Programs. JA of South Texas is proud to work collaboratively with our summer program partners (click here to view complete list). Financial support for these programs has been provided by:

• The George Weldon Sheffield Fund
  of the San Antonio Area Foundation
• The Kittie Nelson Ferguson Foundation
• The Union Pacific Foundation