Nearly 9,000 middle school students have learned lessons this year that will help them finance cars and balance their budgets later in life, thanks to an educational branch of PenFed Credit Union at Maryland’s first Junior Achievement Finance Park®. “Someday these middle school students will run our businesses and change our world,” PenFed Credit Union President and CEO James Schenck told the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Greater Washington during a luncheon celebrating the first year of the JA Finance Park in Prince George’s County. “But first, these students are learning valuable life skills right here.”

Dream of running your own business? Have ideas that could change the work? Want to write your own paycheck? 

These are the questions posed by Gallup and the Clifton Foundation in order to attract the best and brightest Greater Washington students to participate in their Washington Builders entrepreneurial internship opportunity this summer. 

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Junior Achievement USA today announced the launch of a new online Accounting Career Guide for teens. The Guide, which combines Junior Achievement content with resources from AICPA's "Start Here. Go Places," covers the various career paths and opportunities available in the accounting profession, with special emphasis on the work CPAs perform.