SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Local leaders gathered on Main Street in Springfield Wednesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of new career center from Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts.
Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts is a part of the world’s largest organization that is dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs, according to their website. Junior Achievement programs are offered at no cost to schools and community groups in Western Massachusetts and Vermont.
“It’s been at least a decade old dream to come to fruition. It’ll be a center now where students can come, they can spend the day, they can hear a career speaker. There will be a maker space where we’ll have 3D printers,…
