More than 1,150

students from 23 metro area schools visited 27 work places, including

Mayor Shirley Franklin's office and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Other locations

included The Coca-Cola Company, Federal Reserve Bank, Georgia Pacific,

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Publix Super Markets, Turner Broadcasting

System and UPSbusinesses that also serve as Junior Achievement Board companies.

According to

a national Junior Achievement "Kids and Careers" poll released

this January, kids that shadow are more likely to finish high school.

Local students from Inman Middle and Grady High School, Chapel Hill Middle

School, Taylor Road Middle School, Shiloh High School and North Cobb High

School participated in this study.

Survey results

also found that today's students are confident in their ability to one

day attain their ideal careers. They indicated that 30 percent of all

students believe they will "definitely" secure their ideal jobs,

37 percent say they are "pretty sure," and 31 percent say "maybe."

Less than 3

percent of students believe it is "not likely."

To read full

results from the survey, visit www.ja.org/interprise/execsummary.html .

Junior Achievement

is the world's largest and fastest-growing organization dedicated to educating

young people about business, economics and free enterprise.

Through age-appropriate

curricula, Junior Achievement programs begin at the elementary school

level, teaching children how they can affect the world around them as

individuals, workers and consumers.

Junior Achievement

programs continue through the middle and high school grades, preparing

students for additional key economic and work force issues they will face

in the future. This year, Junior Achievement of Georgia will serve more

than 79,000 students in metro Atlanta, Augusta, Gainesville and Savannah.