Programs for Elementary Students

Mini-Society

A mini-economic system is established by students in grades 3-6 in which they create and manage currency and run businesses which provide goods and essential services for their society. Students experience roles as employee, producer, consumer and voting citizen, and learn economic and entrepreneurial concepts. Kids thrive in Mini-Society.

Bank at School

The Delaware Bank At School program creates partnerships between banks and schools. It is designed to teach children the importance of financial management and to give them a chance to open a savings account at no cost. This weekly banking program nurtures the often neglected ethic of saving.

Meaningful Economics Competition (ME*)

Teams of students in grades 3-6 participate in a competition highlighting economics, entrepreneurship, and personal finance.  Teams participate in a written test; a production activity in which teams organize their members efficiently to make as many products as possible; and a problem-solving activity in which the participants are tested on creating a good or service to address a problem. Finally, the teams prepare a marketing strategy that is presented to a panel of judges from business and education professions.

Teach Children to Save Day

Teach Children to Save Day is designed to teach the importance of saving. Bank volunteers are recruited to go into 3rd and 4th grade classrooms to present a personal finance lesson focusing on spending, saving and interest.
2012 Teach Children to Save Day - A Great Success!

Stock Market Game

The Stock Market Game (SMG) is a 10-week program designed to introduce students to the global economy and the world of finance and investing.  Teams of
1-6 students maintain a portfolio of $100,000 on the Internet and vie for divisional awards.  The SMG has 3 levels of competition, the first of which is open to students in grades 4-6. In Delaware, the SMG is offered exclusively by the Center for Economic Education & Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware.  This high-interest game provides an exciting way to learn about economics and the stock market.  Teachers report that the program has tremendous motivational value and is a unique way to introduce young people to free market economic systems.
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Programs for Secondary Students

EntrePrep Summer Institute

Students who participated in the 2011 EntrePrep Summer Institute at the University of Delaware applied what they learned by operating their own Business-for-a-Day. Their creative entrepreneurial ventures were set-up in various locations throughout Newark.
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Personal Finance Challenge

The Personal Finance Challenge provides an exciting competition that tests high school students’ knowledge of savings, investing, credit, risk and money management. Students compete in teams of four in an online preliminary round before advancing to the state competition, held annually at the University of Delaware’s Newark campus.
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Stock Market Game

The Stock Market Game (SMG) is a 10-week program designed to introduce students to the global economy and the world of finance and investing. Teams of  1-6 students maintain a portfolio of $100,000 on the Internet and vie for divisional awards.  The SMG has 3 levels of competition including one for grades 7 and 8 and another for grades 9 through 12.  In Delaware, the SMG is offered exclusively by the Center for Economic Education & Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware.  This high-interest game provides an exciting way to learn about economics and the stock market.  Teachers report that the program has tremendous motivational value and is a unique way to introduce young people to free market economic systems.
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Money Rules Summit

The Money Rules Summit is held yearly for approximately 200 high school juniors and seniors from across the state in partnership with the Delaware Financial Literacy Institute. The Summit gives students the opportunity to work with volunteers from the financial services sector and the Delaware State Treasurer’s Office to learn about budgeting, credit, saving and goal-setting.

Keys to Financial Success

Responding to the growing need to expand the reach of personal finance education for young people, the (CEEE) formed a partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Delaware Bankers Association and Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Maryland and Delaware. During the 2001-2002 academic year, the first Keys to Financial Success course with 40 enrolled students was piloted at Newark High School. Since then, the course has expanded year by year and currently over 4,500 high school students in 16 of Delaware’s 19 school districts are being taught how to make sound financial decisions and to achieve future financial security. For additional information, contact Barbara Emery at emerybudel [dot] edu

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