Junior Achievement Race to Achieve 5k

Packet pick up will be at Terra Running Company (90 N. Ocoee St. Cleveland, TN 37311) on Friday, 8/27/21 from 4-6pm and at Tinsley Park race morning starting at 7am. Race starts and finishes at Tinsley Park at 8am.

WHY JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT?
JA helps students realize that the education they are getting today will help them to have a bright future tomorrow. JA's unique, volunteer delivered programs, show them all of the possibilities that lay before them. They realize they can choose different paths; College? A specific trade? Start their own business? Through your participation as an organization or as an individual, these statistics below can begin to change in your community:

> 20% of U.S. students will not complete high school on time and earn a diploma.

> 49% of U.S. employers recognize that talent shortages impact their ability to serve clients and customers.

> 36% of Americans say that they have at some point in their lives felt their financial situation was out of control.

> 91% of millennials wish they had greater access to entrepreneurial education programs.