Programs :: Junior Achievement Simulation Localization

Computerized Business Simulations

Junior Achievement offers International Members three families of computerized business simulations for a wide range of learning environments and age groups. Computerized business simulations can enhance your program offerings. Simulations offer many advantages:

  • Support the Junior Achievement "learn by doing" philosophy

  • Excite and motivate students to enhance learning

  • Develop teamwork and communication skills

  • Foster a Junior Achievement sense of community

Classroom Simulations

Classroom simulations are learning tools used within a class or learning setting to support the teaching objectives of the class. Typically class members are divided into groups to compete with each other. The results of the simulation are analyzed and discussed to illustrate the material being covered in the class.

Classroom simulations can be used on either a single Windows computer with a printer or a computer network.

Classroom simulations may be localized by a International Member. Localization includes the translation of the program and reports into the local language and the addition of graphics supplied by the International Member or its sponsor. Distribution and use of the localized simulations is controlled by the International Member within its territory.

Web-based Contests

International Members may contract with Junior Achievement to host a web-based contest within their territory based on Banks in Action. A web-based contest allows teams from throughout the International Member to directly compete with each other using the World Wide Web.

Junior Achievement and Harvard Associates provide all the tools necessary to manage a web-based simulation to a International Member to conduct its own contest. This offers a "turn-key" contest for a International Member utilizing the latest and most recent versions of Junior Achievement simulation programs and tools. The International Member's responsibility is to recruit the teams, manage the schedule, and host the final face-to-face championship round. By utilizing the web-based system, a International Member does not have to worry about any technical aspects of a contest and can manage a contest with ease.

The Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge (HPGBC) is an international web-based contest that unites Junior Achievement students across the world. Individual student teams from a country compete against their counterparts in other countries utilizing the World Wide Web. This allows a International Member to offer participation in a global community to its students as well as gain experience in using web-based simulations. The state-of-the-art contest tools developed and refined for the HPGBC are made available to International Members that sign up to conduct web-based contests within their territories.

The simulations offered by Junior Achievement and Harvard Associates have been substantially improved and extended, effective as of the 2003-04 school year beginning in September 2003.

Improvements include:

  • New 32-bit versions for all modern versions of Windows

  • Additional features for each simulation (see individual sheets)

  • Web-based interactive student manual

  • Web-based interactive operator manual

  • Simpler WYSIWIG localization system

  • Immediate registration numbers from the World Wide Web