Brighter Financial Futures and First Keystone Community Bank were honored to recognize Aidyn McHale. Aidyn finished in First Place in the Spring Investing Challenge in the high division for Columbia County and Tenth Place in the State. Aidyn worked under the leadership of educator, Kayla Benfer.
First Keystone Community Bank, a subsidiary of First Keystone Corporation, is an independently-owned community bank since 1864 presently operating offices in Columbia, Luzerne, Montour, Monroe and Northampton counties. First Keystone Community Bank provides innovative business and personal banking solutions that focus on “Yesterday’s Traditions. Tomorrow’s Vision.”
We now offer twelve total competitions, four quarter semesters, and two full semester programs with competitions. Students can learn by using the curriculum & lessons along with playing both the budgeting & investing simulations. The platform provides lessons, assignments, and grading for seamless teacher management as well as the superior gamification of the Personal Budgeting Game & Investment Challenge. The competitions are held in the classroom, both county-wide and state-wide.
Schools can sign up for our Budgeting & Investing competitions at www.brighterfinancialfutures.org. Brighter Financial Futures is a 501(c)3 organization and approved by Pennsylvania’s Department of Community & Economic Development as an Educational Improvement Organization. The competitions and programs result in over 25,000 student registrations in Pennsylvania. Training and support are provided to hundreds of teachers.
The goal is to showcase exceptional talent from business, education, and government.
The entrepreneurship program, Dream-Learn-Pitch, allows students to learn through our online curriculum, at our entrepreneurship conferences or independently with their teachers. Students can upload their Elevator Pitch to win prizes up to $10,000 and additionally, up to $40,000 in college scholarships. See DreamLearnPitch.org/win for details.
For more information, please contact Vice President Carolyn Shirk or President Alan Dakey at cshirk@penncfl.org or 570- 975-5149.
