The Albemarle Corporation is partnering with Junior Achievement to teach students in the Tyrone School District real life skills in business and economics. Albemarle human resources supervisor and Tyrone resident Tom Getz has been a Junior Achievement volunteer for approximately six years. He started by going into Mr. Hasson\u2019s classroom at Tyrone, and he is currently visiting Mr. Linder\u2019s twelfth grade class once a week until the end of this school year.
\n\u201cIt focuses on bringing people from the business community into the schools and focuses on economics, supply and demand and things like that to supplement what teachers are already doing,\u201d said Getz. \u201cWhat Junior Achievement does is they\u2019ll go out and look for volunteers from the business community to go in and teach the classes that are in the local schools.\u201d
\nGetz is scheduled to visit Mr. Linder\u2019s class approximately 15 – 20 times before the end of the school year. The students have booklets of lessons that they go over. Also, Getz discusses real life examples of how things work out at the chemical plant at Albemarle Corporation.
\n\u201cI try to give them a third party perspective on how a topic like supply and demand affects us here at Albermarle instead of just looking at in a book,\u201d said Getz. \u201cI like to try to bring in things from my background like looking for a job, resume writing, interview skills, things that are more focused from the human resources perspective.\u201d
\nThe participating students will pretend to buy and sell stock and follow the stock market for their end of the year project for Junior Achievement. The purpose of this main project is for the students to learn the concept of diversifying their funds.
\nAlso, Getz tries to let the students know that they can make a career choice and become successful right here in Tyrone.
\n\u201cThey can stay in Blair County and make a decent living,\u201d he said. \u201cRight here at Albermarle you have Ph.D. chemists, research chemists, lab techs, chemical engineers and all different career paths.\u201d
\nThe central Junior Achievement office is in Johnstown, and it operates the programs for Bedford, Blair, Fayette, Cambria, Huntingdon, Somerset and Indiana Counties. In Blair County, every school participates in the program except for Williamsburg.
\n\u201cJunior Achievement has been around since 1919. In the local area it started in the mid 60s. When it first began, it was an after school program where students would meet in the evenings with volunteer advisors of local companies and actually learn about running a business through actually running that person\u2019s own business,\u201d said senior director of district operations Donna Schlosser. \u201cToday\u2019s Junior Achievement is very different from that in that now all of our programs our operated during the normal school hours as part of the school\u2019s curriculum.\u201d
\nThe programs run from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and there is always a need for volunteers to participate. Right now Schlosser said that there is a need for J.A. economics in the Hollidaysburg area. Anyone interested can contact either Donna or Jennifer at 943-5246.
\n\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is really try to prepare students for life in general, not only to be successful in whatever future career they might choose but also providing them with life skills that they probably wouldn\u2019t otherwise learn in school if it weren\u2019t for programs like Junior Achievement,\u201d said Schlosser. \u201cWe do a lot of activities with students to teach them about personal financial planning, how to budget their money, how to properly conduct themselves in job interviews, those types of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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