Surprise School Hosts Financial Fitness Exercise for Students
Going beyond the classroom to help students make “cents” of their finances. Two students at Shadow Ridge High School, along with the Arizona Council of Economic Education
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9th Annual Champions in Education Celebrates Arizona Economics Teachers
Two Arizona teachers were honored with the 2022 Economic Education Teacher of the Year award at the 9th annual Champions in Education event.
Flagstaff High Seniors Take Part in Financial Fitness in Action Event
“Economics is the study of choice, and I think it’s important for students to understand that personal finance isn’t a one-all, be-all situation,” said FHS teacher Danielle Bonfig
ACEE Awarded Council of the Year Award
The Arizona Council on Economic Education (ACEE) has been awarded the State Council of the Year at the 61st Annual Financial Literacy and Economic Education Conference.
Students Throttle Full “STEAM” Ahead For Financial Literacy
On Thursday, September 1st the Arizona Council on Economic Education supported Heritage Elementary School in the Peoria Unified School District
Financial Fitness: Peoria Student Athletes Making Moves On, Off Field
On the first day of practice, students in the Centennial High School football program received an important lesson in financial literacy.
AZ students Win SIFMA Foundation’s InvestWrite® Competition
Phoenix, Arizona July 18, 2022 – We could all learn something from twelfth-grader Ashlynn Luzier and seventh-grader McKinley Johnston. At only 18 and 12 years old, the Arizona students developed investment strategies primed for long-term financial success.
Sunnyside High School wrestlers offering help on the mat and in the classroom
Director of student programs at the Arizona Council on Economic Education reads a story to some of the campers during their classroom period of Counting Takedowns’ week-long wrestling and economics camp at Sunnyside High School, Tucson, Ariz., June 14, 2022.
Sunnyside wrestling camp combines grappling, financial literacy
Three of Sunnyside’s standout wrestlers have teamed up with a state agency to host a wrestling and financial literacy camp for underserved youth in their community. Counting Takedowns, which runs from June 14-18, will host 60 Tucson students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Arizona School Named in Top 10 in the National Capitol Hill Challenge Top 10 Schools to be Recognized in Virtual Awards Ceremony June 14
Washington, DC, May 19, 2022 – SIFMA and the SIFMA Foundation today announced the winning teams and congratulated over 7,000 students who competed in the 2022 Capitol Hill Challenge (CHC), a national financial education program underwritten by the Charles Schwab Foundation.
