Dear
friends,
With summer upon us, JABC is busy
preparing for another exciting year of
inspiring young people throughout BC. I
would like to take this time to thank you for your
generous support this past school year. With
your help JA delivered business education programs
to almost 30,000 students in communities across
the province.
I encourage all of you to stay involved
so we can continue to inspire more youth each
year. In fact,
why not get a head start by registering your class
for next Fall or committing to volunteer
for two or more programs? Please contact
your local program
manager for more
details.
On behalf of all of us at JABC,
I wish you a safe and relaxing summer and
look forward to seeing you in
September!
Jan
Bell-Irving
President
PS For the most up-to-date
news about JA check out our twitter and facebook
pages. |
JA Students Take Home
Top Honours 
Ron Tarves, from CIBC (far right) presents
the Student Venture of the Year
Award to students and advisors from
"Phresh"
Junior Achievement of British
Columbia (JABC) is pleased to announce
'Phresh' has won the coveted 2010 CIBC
Student Venture of the Year Award. This
after-school program was staffed by high school
students from Burnaby, Vancouver and New
Westminster.
Hosted by Accenture
in Burnaby, the group
experienced many challenges in organizing their
departments, establishing standards for approving
designs and setting up a printing process they
could do themselves. After many
set-backs they persevered in bringing their
customer-designed t-shirts to market, and
soldiered on to a successful wrap-up for their
company. Their clear and simple approach to
reporting also resulted in the company receiving
the award for Outstanding Financial
Reporting.
Brooklyn Bauer, a student from Brocklehurst
Secondary in Kamloops, was awarded the new
Dr. Donald Rix Inspiring Business
Excellence Scholarship. Brooklyn
travelled to the Vancouver, along with her
teacher and fellow award winner
Chynna Tobias, to accept the award
personally from Laurie Rix-Macrae, daughter of the
late business leader.
Altogether, over 50 students were honoured at
the reception for their outstanding performance,
creativity, and demonstration of business
acumen.
Each year, Junior Achievement
offers a number of awards & scholarships
designed to recognize the achievements students
have made throughout the school year. All BC
students participating in JA's Company
Program-Student Venture, JA Titan, or Business
Game programs are eligible to apply.
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2010 Business Laureates Inducteed
at Annual Gala
Dinner
Left to right: Gordon
Diamond (son of posthumous Inductee Jack Diamond),
Barbara Brink, Event Co-Chair, Darlene Poole (holding
award, wife of posthumous Inductee Jack Poole),
Inductee Bob Lee, Charles Diamond (son of posthumous
Inductee Jack Diamond), Inductee Alex Campbell,
and Conrad Pinette, Event
Co-Chair
Almost 700 business leaders,
aspirants and their guests from across BC gathered
at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver on May 19 for the
induction of the province's newest Business
Laureates into the Hall of Fame. Junior
Achievement of British Columbia (JABC) was the
host for the 5th Annual Business Laureates of
British Columbia Gala Dinner and Induction
Ceremonies, co-sponsored by Scotiabank Group and
Fasken Martineau.
Created by JABC in
2006, the Hall of Fame has a simple goal:
to honour those who helped build our
province...and to inspire the enterprising youth
of BC to
be builders themselves.
The new 2010 Laureates
inductees were:
Alex
A. Campbell,
O.B.C.,
LL.D.;
Jack
Diamond,
C.C., O.B.C., LL.D.
(1909 - 2001);
Robert
(Bob) H. Lee,
C.M., O.B.C.,
B.Comm., LL.D., Chairman, Prospero
Group;
John
(Jack) W. Poole,
O.C., O.B.C., B.Sc.
(1933 - 2009), Chairman, Board of Directors,
VANOC
It was an evening in which BC's top
business leaders met to socialize, recognize...and
be inspired. The
Hon. Gordon Campbell,
Premier of British Columbia, spoke via video while
on a trade mission to Asia to pay tribute to the
laureates and their families. Darren
Entwistle, President & CEO, TELUS Corp.
also spoke of the Laureates impact on our province and
made an impromptu $10,000 pledge to
JABC.
Images of the Hall of Fame site, now
permanently located in the Vancouver Convention
Centre East, flashed on-screen as Conrad
Pinette, Co-Chair of the event, thanked the
community for helping to build this new landmark.
To learn more about the Business
Laureates of British Columbia please visit
www.businesslaureatesbc.org |
Volunteer Spotlight
Santhy teaches a grade 5
student about mass production
during a Business Basics
class
These
days Santhy Yeager usually refers to herself as a
volunteer, and rightfully so. Each
year Santhy, a retired banker, generously
gives her time to teach JA programs in the
Okanagan Region...and this year was no
exception.
From September to June Santhy delivered a
remarkable 29 programs to the young people of
Kelowna!
In all, she has taught over 65 programs
since she first registered as a volunteer in
2007. Her
enthusiasm and passion for JA is infectious.
Because of this commitment students and
teachers regularly request her participation in JA
classrooms.
Her involvement
often doesn't end with teaching the programs. Santhy
creates DVD's of her students in action each year
and uses them to help recruit other volunteers and
donors.
Santhy has volunteered for Business
Basics, Economics for Success, and Dollars with
Sense. This year Santhy taught
her first Company Program to grade 12 students at
Rutland Senior School and we know it won't be her
last.
Congratulations
Santhy on this exceptional
milestone! |
| I'm a JA Volunteer...
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I
am also a JA donor. Like you, I have been in
the classroom and have seen first hand the amazing
impact JA programs have on our youth. I hope
you will also consider making a donation so that
as many students as possible can participate in
these important business
education programs.
Just $40 enables one
student to participate. Please go on-line and make a one time gift or
join the Monthly Giving Program.
Alex Read, CMO
The Business Growth
Hub |
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