"JA in a Day"

"Thank you for coming today, Mr. Adams. I learned a lot"!

It had been my pleasure. There are few activities in life so rewarding as volunteering, let alone helping children. Today, I had the opportunity to feel that sense of pride (while hopefully teaching a group of wonderful kids a thing or two about business and economics)! I did this through Junior Achievement, a program in which working professionals enter a classroom and spend some of their time teaching kids valuable business concepts.

The special part about today was that the usual 5 sessions spread out over 5 days was condensed to a full day spent with the kids... while co-teaching with an RIT Alumnus, Paul Wisotzki. This was the nationwide debut of "JA in a Day" featuring students paired with alumni. Plenty of print and TV media stopped by to catch us in action. As for the subject, Paul (or Mr. W) and I taught the kids about resources and how businesses depend on one another to exist. It was a tremendously worthwhile exprience... it's easy to understand why Louis DeCesare, my High School business teacher, first got into teaching because of his experience with Junior Achievement. For more information, read the official article below:

http://cob.rit.edu/newsview.html?eventid=1277