Awards
2025 Charles R. Hook Award
This award is designed to recognize the Junior Achievement USA Area President who best represents Junior Achievement USA professionalism. Basic criteria for the award are:
- JA Area President must have completed seven years of service in JA by the end of the fiscal year being judged.
- JA Area President must have served a minimum of five years as a President in current JA Area.
- JA Area that the President has led for the past fiscal year must have earned a JA USA 4 or 5 Star Award.
- JA Area Presidents are eligible to receive the Hook Award more than once in the same JA Area. However, there will be a five year period prior to their next year of eligibility.
An awards committee will assemble prior to the National Leadership Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado to determine the recipient of this year's Charles R. Hook Award.
Charles R. Hook
The founders of Junior Achievement are the only group that has contributed more to JA's growth and development than Charles R. Hook.
Hook was introduced to Junior Achievement when, as a president of the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers, he spoke to Achievers in New York in 1938. This led him to host a breakfast meeting of 750 top business people at the Waldorf-Astoria in December of 1941, which launched the original JA Company Program on a national scale in the U.S.A.
Beginning as an office boy in a small steel mill plant in 1898, Hook moved rapidly through the ranks, becoming president of Armco Steel of Middletown, Ohio, in 1930. He was elected chairman of the board of directors of Armco in 1948.
During his long association with Junior Achievement, Hook was personally responsible for the establishment of many new JA Areas. It was his vision and foresight that led the organization to become an international force for free enterprises.
For more than a quarter-century, Hook served on the U.S. Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of Junior Achievement Inc. He also provided leadership to the organization as U.S. national board chair for many years.
The Charles R. Hook Award was established to recognize a JA Area President whose outstanding performance contributed to the growth and development of the organization.
The Charles R. Hook Award, and engraved sterling silver bowl, is presented annually at the Junior Achievement USA National Leadership conference.
2025 Nominees
JA of Central Iowa
JA of Eastern Iowa
JA of Memphis and the Mid-South
JA of Middle Tennessee
JA of Greater New Orleans
JA North
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2025 Flemke Achievement Award
The Flemke Achievement Award is named in honor of Karl Flemke, who served as the national president and CEO of JA from 1982 until his death in 1994. This award recognizes significant achievements and contributions of a first time area president with no less than two and no more than four years of service in his or her current position. Additionally, candidates must pre-certify for the Star Award.
This award was developed and is presented by the JA Staff Alumni Network and consists of a crystal triangle and $1,000. The recipient is selected by a group comprised of JA Area presidents, JA USA staff, and members of the JA Staff Alumni Network.
2025 Nominees
JA of OKI Partners
JA of Kentuckiana
JA of Southeastern Pennsylvania
JA of Western Pennsylvania
JA of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Past Recipients
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2022
2019
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2025 Service Awards
40 Years of Service
JA USA
JA of the Midlands
35 Years of Service
JA of Western New York
JA of Western Pennsylvania
JA of Central Upstate New York
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Tampa Bay
30 Years of Service
JA of Georgia
JA USA
25 Years of Service
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Greater Boston
JA of Alabama
JA USA
JA of Greater New Orleans
JA of Greater South Carolina
JA of Central Indiana
JA of OKI Partners
20 Years of Service
JA of Greater St. Louis
JA of Oklahoma
JA of Southeast Texas
JA of the Michigan Great Lakes
JA of Brazoria County
JA USA
JA of Chicago
JA of Northern Indiana
JA of Middle Tennessee
JA of Eastern Iowa
JA of Western Pennsylvania
JA of Georgia
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of OKI Partners
JA of Greater Fairfield County
JA of Central Upstate New York
JA of Chicago
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
15 Years of Service
JA of Maine
JA of Northern California
JA of Delaware
JA of Central Ohio
JA of Maine
JA of Georgia
JA of Eastern Iowa
JA of Greater New Orleans
JA of Northern Indiana
JA of Arkansas
10 Years of Service
JA of Southern Colorado
3DE
JA USA
JA North
JA of Northern Indiana
JA of Kentuckiana
JA of Arizona
JA of Greater New Orleans
JA of Southeast Texas
JA of Northern California
JA of Northern Indiana
JA USA
JA of Southwest Florida
JA of Greater St. Louis
JA of Ocoee Region
JA of Georgia
JA North
3DE
JA of Central Ohio
JA of Georgia
3DE
JA of Middletown Area
JA of North Central Ohio
JA USA
JA of Oklahoma
JA of the Heartland
JA of Central Ohio
JA of South Florida
JA of Greater St. Louis
JA of Chicago
JA of the Heartland
JA of Southeast Texas
JA of Arizona
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of Wisconsin
JA - Rocky Mountain
JA of Southeast Texas
JA of East Tennessee
JA of Southeast Texas
5 Years of Service
JA of Georgia
JA of the Michigan Great Lakes
JA of SW Indiana
3DE
JA North
JA of North Central Ohio
JA of the Michigan Great Lakes
3DE
JA USA
JA of South Florida
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of New York
JA of Greater Kansas City
JA North
JA of the Chisholm Trail
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Northern Indiana
JA of Georgia
JA of the Michigan Great Lakes
3DE
JA of South Florida
JA of Northeastern New York
JA of Mad River
JA of Western Pennsylvania
JA of Eastern Iowa
JA of Western New York
JA of North Florida
3DE
3DE
JA of Wisconsin
JA of the Heartland
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Wisconsin
JA of the Bluegrass
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of Greater Kansas City
JA of Western Pennsylvania
JA North
JA of Oklahoma
JA of Chicago
JA of Central Upstate New York
3DE
3DE
JA of Arizona
JA of Chicago
JA of Southern California
JA of Arizona
JA of South Central Pennsylvania
JA of Dallas
JA of Northwestern Ohio
JA of Middle Tennessee
JA of the Michigan Great Lakes
3DE
JA of Greater Fairfield County
JA of Greater Fairfield County
JA of OKI Partners
JA of Wisconsin
JA of Chicago
JA USA
JA of Central Illinois
JA of Southeast Texas
JA of New York
JA North
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