First Financial FCU Sponsors Millionaire's Club for High School Students
December 10, 2015
First Financial FCU, Lutherville, MD, has sponsored their second Millionaire's Club in Baltimore County with the launch of their newest Club at Perry Hall High School. The students at Perry Hall High School now have a new, fun tool for developing their personal financial success.
The Millionaire's Club is a complete financial skills program designed for delivery in a club-like setting at the high school level. Clubs are provided seed grants, detailed curriculum, and faculty/student materials at no charge. Also included are entry into national competitions such as The Stock Market Game™ and The Personal Finance Challenge™ and additional support materials add a fun, competitive edge to the Club's activities.
Other Millionaire’s Clubs have produced State and National Personal Finance Challenge champions as well as first-place Stock Market Game™ competitors.
Launched in 2012 by the Credit Union Foundation MD|DC, the Millionaire's Club concept has caught the attention of educators and credit union sponsors alike in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, Somerset, and Prince Georges Counties and Baltimore City. Over 1,000 individual students have participated in the twenty-seven Millionaire's Clubs, and there’s still plenty of room for expansion.
Credit Union Sponsors serve as guest speakers on topics such as identity theft, selecting a financial institution, credit, etc. while the core curriculum, developed by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), is delivered by professional educators either in-class or after school.
Club members elect their own leadership, actively engage in the program, and conduct a year-ending entrepreneurial project that allows Club members to put into practice their new financial skills while ensuring the Club's future.
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