BIZ Bowl is an annual fun-filled, team and family-oriented event, with companies and individuals forming teams of five, collecting pledges, bowling for two games. Prizes, contests, great corporate team-building exercise.

BIZ Bowl was held over 4 Fridays-at Star Lanes in Greenville on Friday February 22nd, 2013, Friday, March 1st, 2013 and Friday, March 15th at Star Lanes and at Paradise Lanes in Spartanburg on Friday, March 8th, 2013. There were 2 sessions each night-6:30-8:30-p.m. and 9:00-11:00p.m. except for Friday, March 15th there was one session-6:30-8:30p.m.

For Spartanburg County High Schools:  “Ethics in Healthy Living”
When: Monday, March 18th, 2013, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

For Anderson, Oconee, Pickens Counties:  “Ethics in Healthcare”
When: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Junior Achievement – Your Skills: Their Future | Swamp Fox

  The 3rd Annual Upstate Junior Achievement Titan Challenge was held at Clemson at the Falls in downtown Greenville on  April 25, 2013 with college scholarship money in the balance for the winning teams.

The Titan Challenge is a strategy tournament using the JA Titan program, an online, interactive business program and simulation.  The competition is uniquely designed to unleash student creativity, test leadership skills, and demonstrate the competitive nature of the free enterprise system.

The competition is open to students who have participated in the JA Titan program in their schools.  The top two teams at each school, as decided after the final in-class competition, are invited to the JA Titan Challenge.  Additional teams will be selected based on scores from the in-class competition.

The Competition

Student “companies” strategize to operate successfully and perform the duties of a management team.  Students must make real economic decisions on price, production, marketing, research and development, and capital investment.  Each round of the competition simulates a business quarter in which the students make decisions that result in a performance index (PI).  The PI measures retained earnings, supply and demand, productivity, market share, and growth.  The teams with the highest PI win!

The Rewards

Scholarships are awarded to the top three teams at the regional competition.  Last year JA awarded over $6,750 in scholarships for colleges and $800 in prizes!

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Join us!!!

The Junior Achievement golf tournament will be held on Friday, June 14th 2013 at The Preserve at Verdae.

For more information contact Susan Spencer at susan.spencer@ja.org

During the 2011-2012 school year “JA in a Day” was delivered by Baldor Electric, Bank of America,  General Electric, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Scansource and RelyLocal employees and several individual volunteers.

If you would like to volunteer in a “JA in a Day” contact Lynda Apple at (864)244-4017 or email lynda.apple@ja.org