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Student Competitions
Personal Finance Challenge
Three Eighth District states currently hold personal finance challenges for teams of high school students: Arkansas | Illinois | Missouri
Arkansas Personal Finance Challenge: The Road To Financial Literacy
The Arkansas Personal Finance Challenge is an opportunity for high school students to demonstrate their knowledge of personal finance by competing with other students across the state.
To participate, teachers should register and begin creating teams. Teams of four students each will then compete in a multiple-choice online qualifier to decide who progresses to the state competition.
The two top-scoring teams from each of six regions in the state will compete in a quiz bowl on personal finance to take home the state championship trophy. The championship will be held April 14 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark.
To learn more and to register, visit the Economics Arkansas web site
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Sponsors: Economics Arkansas and the Centers for Economic Education, with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' Little Rock and Memphis branches. Thanks to R.E. Lee Wilson Trust for funding the state competition.
Illinois Personal Finance Challenge
Personal finance teachers, here's an opportunity to:
- recognize students who demonstrate high levels of comprehension and application of personal finance concepts and skills;
- engage students more fully in their learning;
- assess how well your students are meeting the state mandate; and
- provide an exciting academic competition activity for your students.
The Competition
- Preliminary Round — Teams of high school students, four students per team, take an online test of 30 questions. Qualifying teams advance to the next level.
- State Championship — Twenty teams attend the state competition in Chicago to determine the two finalists through a series of written tests. The two finalists compete in a quiz bowl to determine the state champion team.
Awards
First place — Each of the four team members and their teacher/sponsor receive $500 Series I U.S. Savings Bonds, medals and a school trophy.
Second place — Each of the four team members and their teacher/sponsor receive $250 Series I U.S. Savings Bonds and medals.
All 20 state championship teams — Each participant receives an Illinois Personal Finance Challenge T-shirt and a certificate of recognition.
All participants (including online preliminary round) — All schools participating receive a certificate of recognition.
For more information, go to www.econed-il.org/icee/ipfc.shtml.
Sponsors — The Illinois Council on Economic Education, in conjunction with its Centers for Economic Education throughout the state, with support from the Federal Reserve banks of Chicago and St. Louis; endorsed by Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.
Missouri Personal Finance Challenge
The Missouri Personal Finance Challenge is of special interest to anyone teaching the new, required course in personal finance but is open to all who touch on this subject, whether in social studies, business, or family and consumer science classes. Teams of four high school students each will compete online to qualify for their regional competition. Each team needs a teacher sponsor.
Teacher Workshops
When: Workshops for teachers start in fall 2009. For information about workshops in your location, visit the web sites for the Centers for Economic Education listed below.
Where: Workshops will take place in Chillicothe, Columbia, Kansas City, Kirksville, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Springfield and Warrensburg.
Regional Competitions
When: The online qualifier for the regional competitions will be held March 15-26, 2010. The regional competitions in St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia and Kansas City will be held the week of April 12-16, 2010, and the state competition will be held in Jefferson City on May 6, 2010.
Where: The regional competitions will take place in Columbia, Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield. The state competition will take place in Jefferson City.
Prizes: Regional competition participants will receive T-shirts. All members of the top two teams from each regional competition and their teacher will receive savings bonds and a school trophy. Members of the top two teams for the state competition and their teacher will receive additional savings bonds and a school trophy.
Sponsors: The Missouri Council on Economic Education, the Centers for Economic Education across the state (see below) and Wachovia Securities, with support from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Rules and Registration: Go to http://cas.umkc.edu/mcee for information.
For more information, contact the Center for Economic Education nearest you: |
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