Junior Achievement（青年成就）从事商业教育90载
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ECONOMICS REPORT - Junior Achievement Marks 90 Years of Business Education
2009 年 11 月 27 日 报道 –JA （青年成就组织）纪念商务教育 90 周年。
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
这里是 VOA 特别英语的经济报道
This year, Junior Achievement marks its ninetieth anniversary of educating young people about business and economics. The nonprofit organization is the largest of its kind. Jack Kosakowky is executive vice president.
今年 JA 纪念其教育青年商务与经济的 90 周年。这一非营利组织是最大的非营利组织。 Jack Kosakowky 是执行副总裁。
JACK KOSAKOWSKY: "We are the oldest business and economic education organization in the world. We're now serving nine-point-two million young people around the globe in one hundred twenty-three different countries."
Jack Kosakowky ：“我们是世界上最悠久的商务与经济教育组织。我们目前在全球 123 个国家服务于 920 万青年。”
Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship.
项目开始于小学，并贯穿于整个中学。其教育是关于市场经济学及创业的理念。
Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start the group.
JA 于 1919 年 在 马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔市创立 。二位商界精英 Horace Moses and Theodore Vail 与 马萨诸塞州 的参议员 Murray Crane 共同设立了这一组织。
For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs operated through clubs that met after school. But in nineteen seventy-five, JA also began to teach business skills during the school day.
最初的 50 多年， JA 项目在课后俱乐部进行。但是，自 1975 年起， JA 也在校传授商务技能。
Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. The volunteers also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade.
公众志愿者讲授公司、公司设立以及产品的生产与销售。志愿者也讲授美国经济、世界经济以及行业与贸易。
The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works. They learn about business by operating their own companies.
JA 的公司项目传授青年人如何创业。青年人通过经营自己的公司，从而了解商务。
Students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which they then sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company.
学生在他们的公司里开发产品，并出售股份。他们利用这些资金，购买生产并出售产品所需的原料。最后，他们将利润返还给购买公司股份的人。
Chellsey Cruz joined a student-operated company two years ago. The Higher Grounds Cafe in West Hills, California, sells high quality coffee.
She says her experience has given her valuable training that will help her for a lifetime.
Chellsey Cruz 二年前加入学生经营的公司。加州西山的高地咖啡销售优质咖啡。她说，这一经验向她提供了终生受用的宝贵训练。
CHELLSEY CRUZ: "It taught me to be dedicated, and that if you want to be successful, you have to put in a lot of time and effort. You really have to work at it."
CHELLSEY CRUZ ：“教会了我专注，并且如果希望成功，必须投入大量时间与精力；必须真正努力工作。”
Junior Achievement says three hundred eighty-five thousand volunteers support its programs around the world. In the United States alone, there are nearly twenty-three thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.
JA 说，全球 38.5 万志愿者服务于其项目。仅在美国，大约有 2.3 万个地方举办 JA 活动。
Junior Achievement Incorporated and Junior Achievement International combined their operations in two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its headquarters are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
JA 公司及 JA 国际在 2004 年合并，成立了 JAW （国际青年成就组织）。其总部位 于 科羅拉多州的科泉市。
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter with additional reporting by Faiza Elmasry. Transcripts, MP3s and podcasts of our programs can be found at www.unsv.com. And you can follow us on Twitter at VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
这是 Mario Ritter 编写、 Faiza Elmasry 附加报道的 VOA 特别英语经济报道。节目的文稿、 MP3 及播客，请访问 http://www.unsv.com/ ；可在 Twitter 上收听 VOA 特别英语。我是 Steve Ember 。