Fall 2023
Financial
Literacy
Challenge
National budgeting and investing contest for schools!
Budget Game
Stock Game
National budgeting and investing contest for schools!
The National Challenge is open to schools with an active site license this Fall.
No registration for teachers is required. Students who are using PersonalFinanceLab in their classes will be prompted with a pop-up when they sign in asking if they want to join the challenge. If they choose to participate, the National Challenge becomes an option when they are playing the stock game or budget game (in addition to their regular class). Students can switch between the National Challenge and their class at any time.
Participating students can earn badges and certificates through their activities in the National Challenge, which will carry back over to their class as well!
students from each contest
win a $50 Amazon Gift Card
The Top 10 students from each contest, (from the Budget Game and Stock Game) win a $50 Amazon gift card for their classroom. Teachers of the top-performing finalists will be notified the week after the challenge ends.
teachers will receive a
$50 Staples Gift Card
The 10 teachers that have the most students completing at least 6 months of the budget game will each receive a $50 Staples e-gift Card.
Both of my classes had so much fun with the Budget Game and had no idea of all the learning that occurred! Thank you for making this available. It is so hard to find quality, free resources.
This is an absolutely fantastic program that I wish ALL students had the opportunity to participate in. Your game has provided so many opportunities to relate the real world to my students in a way that is fun, and interactive but also gives them real world skills that will help them throughout their lives.
We now talk about IPO’s and company announcements and budgets and a whole assortment of other real life topics that in the past would have required an entire lesson to help them understand the basics just to have a conversation. Bravo! Not only did you help my students but you made my job easier and more fun as well.
Thank you for making this amazing learning experience available to my students, and of course my congratulations to the other top 5 finishing students; as well as the entire 14,500+ student participants from across Canada, the USA, and elsewhere (?) who participated so enthusiastically, and did such a great job of representing their class/school.
Students practice managing a monthly budget, and building their emergency savings fund. So they can see how their decisions have consequences. Gaining experience on what it feels like to take full responsibility for their financial well-being.
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Students practice investing in real securities with US stocks, bonds and mutual funds. They learn from their own mistakes while using virtual money. So they can know how to grow their wealth responsibly, and make smart financial decisions when they’re ready to invest for real.
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300+ self-graded pop quizzes at the end of each lesson that integrate to teacher reports.
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Students don’t need to complete all the lessons to be eligible for prizes. However, why not take advantage of having free access to our curriculum?
We’ve included 86 lessons from our learning library on investing and personal finance. Each lesson includes a pop quiz at the end with 3-5 questions. Students are required to get 100% on all quizzes to earn the completion certificate, and are able to retake quizzes to improve their score. You can see their progress every step of the way from your Instructor Administrator page.
Example Assignments Include:
You could be the one thing that changes how the next generation manages their money. Your generous sponsorship can keep this challenge free for all schools!
By partnering with PersonalFinanceLab, you help bring the resources that schools nationwide desperately need.
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