High School Programs :: JA Titan®

JA Titan introduces critical economics and management decisions through an interactive simulation. Seven required, volunteer-led activities.

The key learning objectives listed beside each activity state the skills and knowledge students will gain.

Session One: How Much? How Many?

Students explore how price and production can affect business performance.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • explain how product price makes an impact on profits.
  • understand how production can affect price, sales, and profit.

Session Two: How Much? How Many? The Simulation

Students learn to make decisions about price and production levels using the JA Titan computer simulation.

Key Learning Objectives

  • make informed business price and production decisions.

Session Three: Cutting Edge

Students design a research and development plan for their business. They also examine the impact marketing has on sales and explore marketing strategies.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • determine a research and development plan for their business.
  • explain how businesses determine their target markets and conduct market research.
  • explain how marketing affects sales.

Session Four: Cutting Edge –

The Simulation

Students learn to make decisions about research and development and marketing using the JA Titan computer simulation.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • make informed research and development and marketing decisions.

Session Five: Make an Investment

Students learn methods to make capital investment decisions, promote new business growth through capital investment, and why businesses choose to make charitable giving decisions.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • understand that different businesses use different capital investment strategies.
  • make recommendations for capital investment based on set parameters.
  • define charitable giving and explain why businesses make decisions to share their resources.

Session Six: Make an Investment –

The Simulation

Students make decisions about capital investment using the JA Titan computer simulation. Using the online simulation, students also make decisions related to charitable giving.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • make business decisions by applying their knowledge to a business simulation.
  • use what they have learned about price, production, research and development, marketing, capital investment, and charitable giving to make business decisions using the JA Titan computer simulation.

Session Seven: JA Titan of Industry –

The Competition

Using knowledge gained from previous sessions, students compete as businesses to see which will be crowned the JA Titan of Industry.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • understand how business decisions affect business performance.
  • react appropriately to decisions made by other businesses.

JA Titan enhances students’

Concepts–Business management, Capital investment, Charitable giving, Demographics, Fixed costs, Four P’s of Marketing, Law of diminishing returns, Marketing, Marketing research, Price, Product life cycle, Production, Research and development, Target marketing, Variable costs

Skills–Analyzing information, Critical-thinking, Data analysis, Decision-making, Mathematical skills, Planning, Reading charts and graphs, Research, Teamwork, Working in groups

JA Titan includes a program kit containing seven instructional activities and a computer simulation. It is recommended for students in grades 9-12.

All JA programs are designed to support the skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. These programs also augment school-based, work-based, and connecting activities for communities with school-to-work initiatives.

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