U.S. Bank Partners with Junior Achievement to Support High School Entrepreneurship Competition
May 08 2014 - 2:40PM
Business Wire
Junior Achievement and U.S. Bank partnered this week to give
local high school students the opportunity to show off their
entrepreneurial skills, and the chance to win college scholarships
for doing so. On Tuesday, 80 high school students from across
Minnesota competed in the 2014 JA Titan Regional Competition at
Best Buy Headquarters.
JA Titan is a simulated competition in which high school
students work in teams to create and run a fictitious company,
demonstrating math and analytical skills to maximize profits and
most effectively run the business in an interactive computer
simulation. Students make decisions on price, production,
marketing, capital investment, and research and development.
U.S. Bank employees volunteered at the event and the bank
provided a $1,000 post-secondary scholarship to each member of the
winning team, which hailed from Mounds View High School.
“U.S. Bank is proud to support and participate in the 2014 JA
Titan Regional Competition,” said Phillip Trier, Twin Cities market
president for U.S. Bank. “This competition is a unique way to
introduce young people to business concepts and spark
entrepreneurial thinking.”
U.S. Bank is a long-time supporter of Junior Achievement, both
locally and on the national level. In addition to financial
support, bank employees donate their time and expertise teaching
the JA curriculum to students in the classroom. In recognition of
its commitment, U.S. Bank received the 2012-2013 President’s Silver
Volunteer Service Award for donating more than 10,000 volunteer
service hours to Junior Achievement.
Photos from the event are available online.
About Junior Achievement of the Upper MidwestJunior
Achievement of the Upper Midwest has been serving students in
Minnesota, Western Wisconsin and North Dakota since 1949. This
school year we will reach more than 152,000 students in grades K-12
with financial literacy, college and career readiness and
entrepreneurship education. Our programs are implemented by more
than 7,000 volunteers, mostly business professionals, who share
their skills and experience to motivate and inspire students to
succeed. Learn more at www.jaum.org.
About U.S. BankU.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $371
billion in assets as of March 31, 2014, is the parent company of
U.S. Bank National Association, the 5th largest commercial bank in
the United States. The Company operates 3,083 banking offices in 25
states and 4,878 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking,
brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment
services products to consumers, businesses and institutions. Visit
U.S. Bancorp on the web at usbank.com.
Nicole Garrison-Sprenger, U.S. Bank Public Relations(612)
303-0731, nicole.sprenger@usbank.com
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