MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2014--
Junior Achievement and U.S. Bank partnered this week to give local high
school students the opportunity to show off their entrepreneurial
skills, and the chance to win college scholarships for doing so. On
Tuesday, 80 high school students from across Minnesota competed in the
2014 JA Titan Regional Competition at Best Buy Headquarters.
JA Titan is a simulated competition in which high school students work
in teams to create and run a fictitious company, demonstrating math and
analytical skills to maximize profits and most effectively run the
business in an interactive computer simulation. Students make decisions
on price, production, marketing, capital investment, and research and
development.
U.S. Bank employees volunteered at the event and the bank provided a
$1,000 post-secondary scholarship to each member of the winning team,
which hailed from Mounds View High School.
“U.S. Bank is proud to support and participate in the 2014 JA Titan
Regional Competition,” said Phillip Trier, Twin Cities market president
for U.S. Bank. “This competition is a unique way to introduce young
people to business concepts and spark entrepreneurial thinking.”
U.S. Bank is a long-time supporter of Junior Achievement, both locally
and on the national level. In addition to financial support, bank
employees donate their time and expertise teaching the JA curriculum to
students in the classroom. In recognition of its commitment, U.S. Bank
received the 2012-2013 President’s Silver Volunteer Service Award for
donating more than 10,000 volunteer service hours to Junior Achievement.
Photos from the event are available
online.
About Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest
Junior
Achievement of the Upper Midwest has been serving students in Minnesota,
Western Wisconsin and North Dakota since 1949. This school year we will
reach more than 152,000 students in grades K-12 with financial literacy,
college and career readiness and entrepreneurship education. Our
programs are implemented by more than 7,000 volunteers, mostly business
professionals, who share their skills and experience to motivate and
inspire students to succeed. Learn more at www.jaum.org.
About U.S. Bank
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), with $371 billion
in assets as of March 31, 2014, is the parent company of U.S. Bank
National Association, the 5th largest commercial bank in the United
States. The Company operates 3,083 banking offices in 25 states and
4,878 ATMs and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage,
insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to
consumers, businesses and institutions. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web at
usbank.com.
Source: U.S. Bank
Nicole Garrison-Sprenger, U.S. Bank Public Relations
(612)
303-0731, nicole.sprenger@usbank.com