Members of the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville enjoyed a vocational tour of Junior Achievement’s Biztown and Finance Park located on the new Discovery High School campus on Old Norcross Road. Senior Associate of Operations, Laura French, conducted the tour on January 25. While Rotary members enjoyed a Chick-Fil-A lunch, she provided some background about the facility and the service provided to students. The program grew out of the Junior Achievement experience and now reaches 165,000 students from kindergarten through high school. Volunteers man the “shops” and “businesses” and help the students with their activities. The Biztown experience helps sixth graders run their own companies. They go from interviewing for jobs to running their businesses, including handling salaries, taxes, and bills. Students experience marketing a product and reporting on the status of their companies. At the Finance Park eighth-grade students learn about personal finances. They are assigned a certain salary and certain life situations, such as being a parent with two children or being a single person, and then have to handle their budgets. They learn about the expense of child care, about paying taxes and buying insurance, and about living on a budget.   Rotarians marveled at the beautiful building and were impressed with the life skills that the carefully planned activities provide for the students of Gwinnett County.