JA Canada is partnering with Colleges and Institutes Canada to host Skilled Trades Summits across Canada. By providing a hands-on experience, students will enhance their understanding and knowledge of skilled trades as a meaningful and fulfilling career path.

Students develop an understanding of key financial skills, including how education, income, and planning impact personal finances. They learn the importance of budgeting, saving, making informed credit choices, and protecting themselves from financial risks.

High school students come together to explore what it means to be an entrepreneur, how to start a business, and examine critical business processes. Students across southern Alberta identify target markets, analyze competitive advantages, and develop a business plan and strategy.

Students learn from speakers and participate in group discussions with career mentors from a variety of different industries. Students can explore potential career pathways in skilled trades, professional services, manufacturing, engineering, technology, and more!

Students build essential knowledge about the principles of investing and gain real-world experience applying their skills. The program includes both interactive classroom lessons and students can participate in an online stock market simulation.

Students discover how their interests and strengths connect to future careers, explore post-secondary options, and learn budgeting skills. Students are equipped with the financial tools they will need to shape life after high school and their careers.

Students build a toolkit of transferable skills that will enable them to increase resilience and improve outcomes through challenging situations. They also develop stronger communication with critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Students gain essential personal money management skills and learn how to apply them in everyday life, building financial confidence and preparing for real-world decisions that support long-term success.