INFO: Kranky Kids Radio Club Interviews
Here is our second guest – Jack E. Kosakowski, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement USA.
Junior Achievement (JA) is an organization whose primary goal is to teach grades K-12 various strategies for becoming work-ready (i.e. employable), being an entrepreneur, and also obtaining financial literacy skills. Their programs are headed by volunteers who teach both in-school and after-school.
On November 12, 2014, Jack E. Kosakowski, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement USA, kindly answered questions that were sent in by our radio club.
Mr. Kosakowski's answers were recorded on a landline in a public relations office in Washington DC. The MP3 audio files were then emailed to us and from there we put together the questions and answers that you find below, hence the varying audio quality.
The Kranky Kids Radio Club students had never heard of Junior Achievement before this interview – which is all the more reason to ask some questions of an educational organization that has been around since 1919.
What caught our attention is that JA recently released an app for helping students and parents analyze their various higher education options based on career choice, school costs and student loans.
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Question: “Your new app is geared towards high school students. Should I, as a sixth grader, be thinking about college already?”
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Question: “What's it like to be a CEO of Junior Achievement? What exactly do you do?”
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Question: “We see that you have different websites. Which website should we focus on if we want to become more involved with Junior Achievement?”
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Question: “Do you ever come to schools yourself and talk with students?”
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Question: “We are in an area where everyone talks about being an entrepreneur. If everyone is a leader – who does the work?”