Dawn Laskowski, Director of Business Development for
Highmark Federal Credit Union of Rapid City, SD recently provided financial literacy training to 150 local students.� The attendees, juniors and seniors at Central High School in Rapid City, included many students from Personal Finance and Business Finance classes.
Dawn gave presentations to 6 separate classes about
Checking Accounts Essential Building Block to Managing Your Money. �"Each session lasted about�an hour and a half, and helped students to understand how to write checks, maintain their check register, and reconcile their register to their statement" stated Laskowski.� "I also provided an explanation on how to use many of the helpful electronic services that are offered today" she added.
In a separate financial literacy effort, on April 22-23, Highmark FCU is providing a�class tour of their facility to three separate classes of students with cognitive development challenges. The tours will focus on the Youth Week sleuth/detective theme: Looking for Ways that Help People Save Money. �Playing along this theme, the credit union will provide each visitor with a�little "Sleuth" moustache from the CUNA web store and a hand-held magnifying glass so that they can really "search for ways that make it easy to save money". ��The credit union expects the fun should lead to a very engaged discussion after the tour!
Dawn Laskowski, Director of Business Development for Highmark Federal Credit Union of Rapid City, SD recently provided financial literacy training to 150 local students.� The attendees, juniors and seniors at Central High School in Rapid City, included many students from Personal Finance and Business Finance classes.
Dawn gave presentations to 6 separate classes about Checking Accounts Essential Building Block to Managing Your Money. �"Each session lasted about�an hour and a half, and helped students to understand how to write checks, maintain their check register, and reconcile their register to their statement" stated Laskowski.� "I also provided an explanation on how to use many of the helpful electronic services that are offered today" she added.
In a separate financial literacy effort, on April 22-23, Highmark FCU is providing a�class tour of their facility to three separate classes of students with cognitive development challenges. The tours will focus on the Youth Week sleuth/detective theme: Looking for Ways that Help People Save Money. �Playing along this theme, the credit union will provide each visitor with a�little "Sleuth" moustache from the CUNA web store and a hand-held magnifying glass so that they can really "search for ways that make it easy to save money". ��The credit union expects the fun should lead to a very engaged discussion after the tour!