AT&T Aspire program offers career opportunities for Girl Scouts from Hunting Park, Germantown

Global nonprofit organization Junior Achievement is working as a partner with AT&T’s $250 million Aspire initiative, which has already given $800,000 locally.

Together, the groups brought 32 Girl Scouts from Nueva Esperanza Academy in Hunting Park and Germantown High Schools last week to AT&T regional offices in King of Prussia to hear about career opportunities in technology and business.

“We are so excited to be celebrating the 100,000 student mark with Junior Achievement and AT&T nationally that we’ve reached over a three-year program,” said Laura Yohe, program director of Junior Achievement in Delaware Valley.

Watch a video on last week’s student seminar below:

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Started in 1919, the model connects young students with business professionals and provides them with life skills to succeed in a global economy. With 120 offices in the United States and agencies in more that 112 countries, Junior Achievement focuses on the core areas of financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work readiness.

Junior Achievement expects to serve between 14,000 and 15,000 students in the five-county area in kindergarten through 12th grade. Within Philadelphia alone, the organization hopes to serve 9,000 students in kindergarten through 8th grades, providing a real-world connection to workers and skills students need to be successful.

“One of the great things about being involved in Junior Achievement is being able to work with people who have all different kinds of work experience in different industries,” Yohe said, “And one of the great things about AT&T is that the technology, the engineers and the computers are a great connection for students that are interested.”

[Full disclosure: AT&T is the title sponsor of Philly Tech Week.]