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SUMMER CONFERENCE & EXPO WRAP-UP

BY DON HARRIS

AASBO Duck Race Delivers to

Junior Achievement of Arizona

AASBO’s popular Duck Race just keeps on
giving – this time to Junior Achievement of
Arizona.
It makes perfect sense that AASBO chose
Junior Achievement as its beneficiary
this year. After all, they represent two
organizations dedicated to helping K-12
students succeed.
The duck event, staged annually at
AASBO’s Summer Conference and Expo,
generated $11,500 for Junior Achievement,
which helps prepare today’s students for a
bright future tomorrow. The organization’s
kindergarten-12 grade programs foster
th
work-readiness, entrepreneurship and
financial literacy skills using hands-on
learning techniques to inspire students
to dream big and reach their potential,
according to its website.
For example, The Junior Achievement
Be Entrepreneurial program introduces

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“I selected Junior Achievement
because of the many innovative

things that they are doing with
students. They have a real hands-on

and practical approach to showing
kids how business and jobs work in

the real world. There have been so
many people in the school business

world that have been impacted by
their programs, and the partnership

with AASBO and Junior Achievement
just made sense.”
— AASBO President Nate Bowler

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