Coupled with the presence of a volunteer in the classroom, students apply their knowledge of business as they compete online in the highly competitive industry of the fictional Holo-Generator™.
While simulating "business quarters," students enter decisions on price, production, marketing, capital investment, and R & D. The impact of the decisions will lead to the success or failure of each Holo-Generator™ company.
The classroom-based version of JA Titan offers lesson plans, administrator control, and economic scenarios. It is available only through your local office. However, portions of the site are available to the general public at http://titan.ja.org
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Session One: How Much? How Many?
Students explore how price and production can affect business performance.
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- explain how product price makes an impact on profits.
- understand how production can affect price, sales, and profit.
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Session Two: How Much? How Many? The Simulation
Students learn to make decisions about price and production levels using the JA Titan computer simulation.
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- make informed business price and production decisions.
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Session Three: Cutting Edge
Students design a research and development plan for their business. They also examine the impact marketing has on sales and explore marketing strategies.
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- determine a research and development plan for their business.
- explain how businesses determine
their target markets and conduct
market research.
- explain how marketing affects sales.
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Session Four: Cutting Edge – The Simulation
Students learn to make decisions about research and development and marketing using the JA Titan computer simulation.
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- make informed research and development and marketing decisions.
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| Session Five: Make an Investment
Students learn methods to make capital investment decisions, promote new business growth through capital investment, and why businesses choose to make charitable giving decisions.
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- understand that different businesses use different capital investment strategies.
- make recommendations for capital investment based on set parameters.
- define charitable giving and explain why businesses make decisions to share
their resources.
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Session Six: Make an Investment – The Simulation
Students make decisions about capital investment using the JA Titan computer simulation. Using the online simulation, students also make decisions related to charitable giving.
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- make business decisions by applying their knowledge to a business simulation.
- use what they have learned about price, production, research and development, marketing, capital investment, and charitable giving to make business decisions using the JA Titan computer simulation.
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Session Seven: JA Titan of Industry – The Competition
Using knowledge gained from previous sessions, students compete as businesses to see which will be crowned the JA Titan
of Industry.
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- understand how business decisions affect business performance.
- react appropriately to decisions made by other businesses.
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