From June 7-28, the Junior Achievement program “Business Basics: Technology & Innovation,” is being held for grades 4 and 5 classes at Greentree School.
This program explores the concepts of needs versus wants with respect to technology. Students will take a look at traditional technology in comparison to the modern world, and how the impact of the progress of technology effects business and society.
Part of the program is identifying Canadian inventors and inventions that have contributed to the Canadian business world and on an international stage.
Students will use their creativity to come up with future technologies to meet current needs, evaluate the usefulness of their invention, and will bring their new technologies to a “market” in a live classroom auction.
Five individuals from Chinook Credit Union Ltd., Drumheller volunteered to train and teach this program in the school. These individuals included Jessica Garrett, Barb Taillon, Sarah Burnett, Sheresse Thompson and Karen McMillan.
“Partnering with Junior Achievement follows Chinook’s values by actively contributing to the development of our community,” said Patsy Stokalko, Branch Manager of the Chinook Credit Union Ltd., Drumheller branch.
Junior Achievement programs have been operating for 51 years now, delivering the concepts of financial literacy and business to the classroom setting.
“There’s not a lot of curriculum covering these topics in the schools,” said Lorie Penner, the regional coordinator for Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta.
Junior Achievement offers a variety of programs from grades 4-12. They are completely free to the schools through funding. The programs that ran in Drumheller were funded by the Drumheller & District Chamber of Commerce and the World’s Largest Dinosaur Legacy Fund.
Programs ran at Drumheller Valley Secondary School and St.Anthony’s for Grade 9 students earlier this year.
“I would like to sincerely thank the volunteers and community funders for their support with Junior Achievement programs,” said Penner.
