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The following events are currently scheduled:
Financial Reality Simulations
Students can spend 2.5 hours experiencing life as an adult, and get to return to their relatively carefree existence a little more knowledgeable about paying bills, creating a budget, furnishing a home and many other adult financial responsibilities. The Financial Reality Simulation is coming to a town near you.
February 26 -- Glasgow High School
February 27 -- Green City High School
March 4 -- Skyline High School
March 6 -- Stover High School
March 7 -- North Calloway High School
March 8 -- Brentwood High School
March 11 -- Southern Boone High School
March 12 -- Sheldon High School
April 30 -- Eldon High School
Sponsor: Missouri Council on Economic Education
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript! or call 816-235-2654.
March 18-19, 2013
Missouri Personal Finance Challenge Online Qualifier
Get your high school students registered for the 7th Annual Personal Finance Challenge. Students compete in topics, such as Spending & Credit, Savings & Investing, and Income & Money Management, beginning with an online qualifier. From there they can proceed to the state competition and finally to the national competition held in St. Louis.
Sponsor: Missouri Council on Economic Education
Location: online
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript!, call 816-235-2654, or visit the Missouri Personal Finance Challenge website.
March 27, 2013
9:00 AM - noon
Jump$tart Day at the Capitol
Visit members of the Missouri Jump$tart Coalition at the Capitol Third Floor Rotunda. Various members of the organization will be there to provide information on personal finance education efforts in Missouri. Ask your representative to stop by to learn more about this essential work.
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript! or call 816-235-2654.
April 15, 2013
Application deadline
Leadership in Practice Summer Camp 2013
The 2013 Leadership in Practice Summer Camp application period is now open. This summer June 26-28, 2013, up to 150 rising sophomores from across Missouri will participate in the Missouri Chamber's 17th Annual Leadership in Practice summer program. For three days on the campus of Wetminster College in Fulton, students will participate in a variety of activities, simulations and discussions designed to develop their leadership skills. Leadership in Practice seeks to engage rising sophomores who have leadership potential, and take them to greater heights. The transformation that occurs with these young men and women during Leadersip in Practice is phenomenal!
Sponsor: Missouri Chamber of Commerce
Location: Fulton
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript!, call Brian at 573-634-3511 or visit the Leadership in Practice webpage.
April 17, 2013
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Personal Finance Symposium V
The Symposium annually brings leading financial professionals to campus to present to an audience of teachers, students, professors, extension professionals, financial planners, and members of the public. Each year four presentations allow an in-depth analysis and discussion of a topic germain to financial planning in the area of expertise of those presenting. Certified Financial Planners are able to receive four units of continuing education credit.
Sponsor: Personal Financial Planning, University of Missouri
Location: Columbia
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript!, call 573-882-9651, or visit the Personal Financial Planning website.
April 24, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Get Money Smart!
Join us for dinner and a demonstration of new programs and lessons for teaching about credit, including
  • Credit Cred, a new interactive online program that explains what credit is, how you get it, and how your maintain it
  • Credit-related personal finance chats, Payday Loans and Rent to Own
  • Personal finance e-tools, including the Econ Ed Mobile Learning App
  • Learning, Earning, and Investing for a New Generation, a newly revised curriculum for teaching persona finance
  • Gen I Revolution, an online personal finance game
  • Student Debt and the Rising Cost of College, a discussion of the merits of a college education, student loans, rising college costs, and other financial options for students navigating this challenging issue.
Sponsor: UMSL Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript!, call 314-444-8421, or visit the St. Louis Fed website.
May 9, 2013
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Meet Me in Missouri Competition
Teachers, enroll your 4th and 5th grade students in this fun-filled educational program designed to enhance student learning about Missouri based in part on MO HiStory, an interactive online curriculum featuring Missouri entrepreneurs. Student teams compete in the areas of content knowledge, a production exercise, and a problem-solving activity. Participating students receive a free t-shirt.
Sponsor: University of Missouri-St. Louis Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education
Location: St. Louis
For information, email the Turn on JavaScript!, call 314-516-5248, or visit the center's website.
June 12, 2013
one-day workshop
Economics of Sports
Complicated economic concepts such as supply/demand, marginal revenue product, incentives, and profit maximization are best taught through real-world examples. Collegiate and professional sports provide excellent examples of economic concepts at work. At this workshop, teachers will learn how to teach economics through the lens of sports.
Sponsor: Missouri Council on Economic Education
Location: St. Louis
For more information or to register, email Turn on JavaScript!.
June 19, 20, 21, 2013
AP Economics Conference
If you are a seasoned AP economics instructor or are simply contemplating adding an AP economics course to your school's curriculum, don't miss this three-day workshop. Federal Reserve staff and experienced AP instructors and graders will demonstrate engaging economics lessons, interactive online programs, and whiteboard applications developed specifically for AP classes in micro and macro. Topics for this year's conference include national income and product accounts, shadow banking, game theory, bonds and more.
Sponsor: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Location: St. Louis
For more information, email Turn on JavaScript!, call 314-444-8421, or visit the AP Economics webpage.