Junior Achievement programs each present a world sized to the student's age-appropriate experience.

As students grow, the Junior Achievement world also grows.

How big is the Junior Achievement world? JA programs start in kindergarten focussing on self. Succeeding grades explore the child's family, community, city, region, and nation. By grade six the Junior Achievement classes are exploring issues of global trade and international economic considerations.

Junior Achievement is an organization of volunteers funded by businesses with the purpose of educating and inspiring young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives.

JA Worldwide currently reaches more than two million students in 100 member nations. The emergence of a global economy has resulted in great demand for Junior Achievement programs in countries around the world that are making the transition from command economies to free market systems.