Seven high school students in a financial education programmentored by the $153 million Downey FCU won first place in aCalifornia Council on Economic Education-sponsored competition.
|The “MoneyWise Teen” competition awarded $500 to each winningstudent enrolled in Downey High School's ROP (Regional OccupationalProgram) Banking and Finance Operations Class. Their teacher, Ms.Coty Alvarez, also received a $500 prize.
|The technical education class was also awarded the “ModelProgram and Practice” Award from the Los Angeles County Office ofEducation and the California Department of Education.
|Downey FCU's Community Education and Development Representative,Kari Johnson, mentored the students by teaching some units from theMoneyWise Teen curriculum and helped them develop their winningpresentation to judges.
|Major funding for the MoneyWise Teen competition came from theChartered Financial Analyst Society of Los Angeles. Other majorcontributors include the Richard Miles Johnson Foundation and HSBCBank.
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