Junior Achievement Award Ceremony
This year was the first year that I participated in Junior Achievement as a business educator. My brother and I both received a plaque for our efforts. I only have a picture of my brother receiving his plaque because I was on vacation and could not attend the ceremony.
Junior Achievement is a worldwide partnership between the business community, educators and volunteers — all working together to inspire young people to dream big and reach their potential. Junior Achievement’s hands-on, experiential programs teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people all over the world.
My brother Rick Kennedy (high school business teacher for E.C. Glass high school) and I teamed up this year. This was his fourth year doing this and my first. Below is the article from the Lynchburg City School website about this year’s results.
Good Business Sense: E.C. Glass Economics Students Awarded for their Entrepreneurial Skills
Sweatshirts. They can keep you warm, help you spread school pride and make you a few bucks - that is if you’re in Mr. Rick Kennedy’s economics class at E.C. Glass High School. Students came into the class to learn…they came out with a new business venture - ECG Clothing Productions. They made sweatshirts, put together an advertising campaign and started selling! It was all done as part of the Junior Achievement mentoring program. Mr. Ronald Kennedy, Rick’s brother and the Executive Director of Distance Learning and Graduate Studies for Liberty University, came in to help teach the teens a little bit about business as well.
This year, ECG Clothing Productions is proud to take home JA’s Economics Class of the Year.
Junior Achievement of Virginia’s Piedmont is recognizing the students and the Kennedy brothers for their hard work. Beyond being successful business people, the class/ business partners, now have an award under their belts as well. Turns out these sweatshirt making students were the best business students in the region. Junior Achievement considers all the schools in the region for this award.
This is the fourth year in a row that Mr. Kennedy’s class has taken home the honor!
Ed Dellinger, Lynchburg City School’s coordinator for Career Technical Education and JA board member, presented the award to Mr. Kennedy during a luncheon at Outback Steakhouse.
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Congrats to you both.
It’s great to see family working together like this, and on something this worthwhile.
God bless you both!