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H&R Block is Awarding Students $3 Million in Prizes, to Support Learning About Budgeting & Personal Finance
How would you like your students to have the opportunity to earn a $20,000 Scholarship Award? There are 132 of those up for grabs, along with a Grand Prize $100,000 award! There are also $2,500 and $5,000 Classroom Grants being awarded as well.
What if all they had to do to win was play an online Budget Management Simulation, that teaches them about managing personal finances? Seriously. How cool is that?
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The H&R Block “Budget Challenge” [3] is open to students aged 14 and over, in grades 9 through 12. There are three upcoming challenge sessions - each runs about 2 months, and each of them provides opportunities for students to win!
The next three upcoming Budget Challenge start dates are:
- January 16
- January 30
- February 13
Teachers - note that the sign up deadline is a week before each challenge starts, so be sure to go ahead and sign up right away.
What an awesome way for students to learn about managing their personal finances while having fun and having a great chance to win serious cash for college or for your classroom!
Just click here to learn all about it [3] and enter today!
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Hear what other teachers have said about the Challenge and the tools students use while competing and learning:
“My Juniors and Seniors do this for a Project grade every Wed. and Fri. We have a good time with this “bonding” experience and there is great laughter as well as dread when they have late fees! I really appreciate the people who put this challenge together. It is wonderful to witness them learning about “real life”! ”
“I am so thankful that you guys have put together such a wonderful curriculum for teens. Every time I am out and someone asks what I do and I tell them I teach financial literacy to teenagers they all say “I wish they had that class when I was growing up.” Thank you for everything you do!”
Learn More and Sign up for the Challenge today! [4]
About Kelly Walsh [9]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [10] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [11]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [12] and have a listen!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]