![]() ![]() The whole concept was to train the high school students to teach the JA lessons, so the high school students had an opportunity to learn things like discipline, public speaking and organization, and to meet other adults, parent volunteers from the community, who also are involved with the program.” With the vision and assistance of Celeste Hardrick, who runs the JA program in South Jersey, and the collaboration of WTHS business education teachers Pat Chiaro, Shannon Molloy and Roz Gill, we developed this ‘High School Heroes’ program. Each year, the District’s JA program got bigger and bigger, to the point where I knew that I needed some help. “I had such an amazing experience that I just wanted to do more. “I started in 2005 with 23 students in a seventh-grade classroom at Chestnut Ridge Middle School,” Panto said. ![]() Wealth management advisor and JA board member and volunteer Anthony Panto has made it his personal and passionate mission to grow the program in Washington Township. JA, which turned 100 in December, has benefited generations of students worldwide by encouraging them to dream big about business-related career opportunities. The cheers and applause, usually reserved for celebrity guests and sports heroes, were directed to a contingent of Washington Township High School business education students, aka the “High School Heroes,” who arrived with confidence, enthusiasm and interactive kits that would help them deliver fun, grade-appropriate lessons on money, banking, commerce, financial literacy and entrepreneurship through the Junior Achievement (JA) program. The school safeties at Thomas Jefferson Elementary provided a rock-star greeting to the bus load of visitors who walked into their building on January 17, 2020. ![]()
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