What Is Muma BizTown®?
Muma BizTown is an immersive, hands-on learning experience where 5th-grade students run a city for a day—taking on real jobs, managing money, and making decisions that mirror adult life.
Before Arrival to Muma BizTown:
Students prepare in the classroom by:
Creating business plans
Learning workplace roles
Exploring careers
Understanding how consumers and businesses interact
At Muma BizTown:
Students become citizens in a student-sized city where they:
Work real jobs and earn paychecks
Pay rent, taxes, and utilities
Manage bank accounts and insurance
Serve customers and operate businesses
Vote, lead, and collaborate as a community
With guidance from volunteer mentors, students make real decisions—and experience real consequences—in a safe, engaging environment.
The result:
Muma BizTown builds confidence, responsibility, and real-world readiness—giving students a powerful first look at their future and the belief that they can succeed in it.
Thank you to our Sponsors
Pam & Les Muma
Testimonials
“It’s incredibly important. Businesses have to participate. Businesses have to partner, because it builds resiliency in the community we serve. I can’t think of a better way to do it than though Junior Achievement”
Muma BizTown is a learning experience for 5th grade students that teaches economic concepts, workplace skills, and personal and business finances in a child-size town built just for them. Our partner educators (you!) deliver 14 lessons in the classroom before their students visit Muma BizTown. The curriculum is correlated to Common Core and Florida State standards and is designed to be easily taught straight from the educator’s kit we provide. We train all teachers on the curriculum and provide the teaching materials during a one-time training.
Each lesson takes approximately 45 minutes and the curriculum typically takes about 4-5 weeks to implement in total. Once the students receive the curriculum in their classrooms, they attend an on-site simulation, where each student will have a job within a business team, buys/sells products, receives a paycheck and manages a personal bank account.
If you would like more information in regards to how your school can be a part of this impactful experience, please contact:
Stephanie Docsol
Vice President, Experiential Learning Centers
stephanie.docsol@ja.org
813-485-9619
Ready to Learn more?
For more information about Junior Achievement, our programs, or how to get involved reach out to:
Shauna Dykes
(863) 412-7009
shauna.dykes@ja.org