Junior Achievement of Wisconsin - Northeast Region Programs

Junior Achievement of Wisconsin - Northeast Region offers the JA BizTown Summer Camp, which includes daily lessons, hands-on activities, team-building games, and in-class learning. Participants take part in a day-long visit to a fully interactive, simulated town where they operate the economy of a small city. Participants spend the first four days of camp learning key economic concepts and work readiness skills, and on the final day they work together to run JA BizTown.

• Schedule: Participants spend the first four days in lessons and activities, with a final day focused on running JA BizTown.

Junior Achievement was founded in 1919. Junior Achievement's purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. Junior Achievement of Wisconsin - Northeast Region is part of a nonprofit that offers programs in work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy, using financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurial concepts in its lessons. Its learning experiences use an experiential learning approach that includes critical and creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and technical literacy skills, and they are designed with real outcomes for students in mind, including measurable connections between what students learn and their future goals.

Junior Achievement of Wisconsin - Northeast Region uses the JA BizTown Summer Camp and the JA BizTown Experiential Learning Center, which features a fully interactive, simulated town, as part of its programming. Junior Achievement partners with corporations, individuals, education partners, and local volunteers to fund and deliver its programs, and it offers ways to get involved for volunteers, districts or schools seeking educational materials, and businesses. Programs are taught by volunteers in inner cities, suburbs, and rural areas throughout the United States, and 247,350 classroom volunteers come from businesses, colleges, parents, and retirees. Local volunteer boards of directors made up of business, education, and civic leaders set policy and direction for each local office.

Junior Achievement is one of a few nonprofits that use independent, third-party evaluators to gauge the impact of its programs and has consistently received high grades for accountability and transparency. Junior Achievement USA is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The leadership team connected to Junior Achievement of Wisconsin - Northeast Region and Junior Achievement includes Matt Juedes, JA Wisconsin Northeast Director of Development & Stewardship; Mr. Alan Armstrong, President & CEO of The Williams Companies and chairman of the Junior Achievement USA board of directors; Jack Harris, chief executive officer of Junior Achievement; Tim Greinert, president of Junior Achievement; Julie Granger, President and CEO of JA of Wisconsin; and Susan Fronk of MRA–The Management Association, Chair.

Last updated July 27, 2026.