Entrepreneurship
X-Zone’s Junior Achievement club.
- Network
- Junior Achievement (JA)
- Focus
- Entrepreneurship
- JA founded
- 1919
About
Junior Achievement (JA) is one of the world’s largest youth-serving non-profits. Since 1919 it has helped young people build the skills to start businesses, find good jobs and manage money well.
At X-Zone, the JA club brings these programmes to SAC students: learning by doing, working in teams on real business challenges and meeting people from the business world.
Mission
To inspire and prepare students to succeed in the global economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Objectives
- Develop entrepreneurial awareness among students.
- Enhance practical business skills and financial literacy.
- Promote teamwork, leadership and innovation.
How the club works.
Four ways we learn by doing. Pick one to see more.
Workshops
Regular sessions on entrepreneurship, innovative solutions, organisation, marketing and finance.
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovative solutions
- Organisation
- Marketing
- Finance
Programme.
Three learning paths, five steps each — from digital tools to finance to launching a business.
Get organised, find a problem worth solving and turn research into a clear vision.
- 1
Deadlines & tasks in Gmail
Get to know Google Workspace and use it professionally — track key dates and tasks with Gmail’s side panel.
- 2
Mind maps in Google Drawings
Brainstorm to find a problem worth solving, and map it out as a mind map.
- 3
Research & development
Learn how to run R&D on the problems identified or on a chosen topic.
- 4
Vision board
Turn the research into a vision board of goals.
- 5
Personal timeline in Google Drawings
Build a timeline to make the vision board real and manage the projects behind it.
Join JA.
Want to turn a business idea into something real, with a team? Ask the JA club how to join.
