A while back, I wrote that I had volunteered with Junior Achievement.  Up until now we hadn’t been able to find an assignment that was reasonably close… but that changed this week.

I am now the JA volunteer for Ms. Ferrer-Adames 4th Grade class at Nesbitt Elementary School in Gwinnett County.  and I recently had our first class together.  It was a lot of fun.

For our first meeting, we introduced ourselves to each other and spent a few minutes talking about businesses and entrepreneurialism.  The kids were very engaging and had a lot to contribute.  After just 50 minutes of class time, I have to say that I am very excited about the prospects of the next generation.

The program we are doing is called My Region.  To begin with, we talked about what makes a region, as well as resources, natural, human and capital.  The kids were great at coming up with examples of each of the types of resources and grasping the concepts behind them.

Next week we are going to start coming up with business examples and deciding what regions they would be best suited for.  I’m really looking forward to it.

And next week I will get some actual pictures…  ;^ )