Let their success be your inspiration!
Let their success be your inspiration!
This event, held in the spring, is a JANY community public recognition event celebrating the accomplishments of the JANY After-School Essay Contest winner. Friends and supporters of JANY purchase tickets to see the night's Yankee game and the on-field award presentation to the essay contest winner. The student winner receives a certificate of acknowledgement and a savings bond.
All proceeds from the ticket sales are used to support ongoing JANY programs in New York City and Long Island schools.
How Junior Achievement Helped Me Plan For My Future
—Sara Mae Lagasca
The mind of your average 8th grader is filled with thoughts of fun, friends, family, and mastering the art of "growing up." The last thing we want to think about is work. But (as we all know) knowledge is a powerful thing that will help us succeed in life. Junior Achievement provided me with a fun, easy, and effective way to help me plan for the future.
...Now, before Junior Achievement, I used to hate math. I had no enthusiasm for the subject at all. But when I worked with "fun" things like jelly beans, hard candies, and pretzels, I started to enjoy math. This trimester, I accomplished a 99% math average. Junior Achievement taught me to enjoy math and showed me that I would need it later on in life...
Last year, Mrs. Herbert brought in a newspaper that we would use to look through the job listings. This lesson basically brought my "calling" before my eyes. I was creative, worked with children well, and liked to teach. After flipping through the paper, I saw several openings for 1st to 7th grade teachers, my personal dream job.
Junior Achievement has given me many things: confidence, knowledge, and useful skills to have as I grow up.
View pictures from last year's Yankee Night
For more information contact yankeenight@jany.org
