1. Who are the students participating in this project?

Conner Thomas, Jon Skolnik, Randy Wang, Bobby Cohen, Edward Goul, James Kappos, and Rafe Feffer.

2. What is your area of interest, and why?

Entrepreneurship, finance, and business. These topics are dramatically overlooked in public schools and contributes to our country’s citizens’ growing debt and disproportionate spending habits. We believe that if we can instill basic, fundamental concepts of ideas like saving, spending, and entrepreneurship in the minds of the children we instruct, we can have an early and vital impact on these childrens’ financial futures that will continue to serve them over the course of their lives.

3. Who are the potential partner organizations you may utilize throughout this project?

We would like to continue to foster a strong relationship with our established partner schools, as we already have a working relationship with them, and they represent the demographic we are aiming to serve.

Throughout this year, though, we have worked exclusively with El Sol Academy.

4. What is the specific community need(s) that will be addressed? Why do they need to be addressed?

The community we hope to impact is especially affected by a lack of education in financial concepts that would allow them to stay free of debt and the minimum wage trap. Early understanding of basic ideas like saving, for instance, could quite literally change the direction of their lives.

5. What are possible activities/opportunities you may execute within the scope of this project?

We have developed a curriculum for the students that incorporates different elements and activities--all aimed at teaching the concepts of business. If just one of these students decides to open a small business as opposed to falling victim to poor financial habits we would consider our mission a success.

6. What do you hope to have accomplished by March?

We hope to have instilled in our students not only a fundamental understanding of finance and entrepreneurship, but also an interest in the field. We want to teach them that helping their community and making money are not mutually exclusive, but rather, go hand in hand, as entrepreneurs are often ones that contribute the most to their communities and raise the standard of living. We know that the communities we will educate have brilliant minds that are only lacking the opportunity to succeed. We want to give them a broader awareness of the world and its opportunities.

In March, we made another trip to El Sol and presented our latest material. Our activities built upon concepts taught during previous visits. Our last trip was surely our most organized and informative, and the feedback forms, provided by the students we taught, reflected that well.

7. How will you plan to achieve your goals? (Be as specific as possible)

• October 30: (this needs to be fairly specific): Reconvene and discuss our general goals and philosophies with this year. Discuss how this will function in relation to our investment committee component, SLIC.

• November 20: Start working on the curriculum that we will be using to teach the students at El Sol for site visit #1 and #2. Finish curriculum for site day #1.

• December 11: Finish curriculum for site visit #2 and #3.

• January 15: Site visit #1

• February 5: Site visit #2

• March 5: Site visit #3. Prepare for presentations as well. This is to occur throughout the month as well as on this particular day.

• April 16 (Last SL day, presentations): Present our curriculum, site visits etc.

8. How will you measure success?

We will measure our success by our students' interest in and reception of the topics. We hope to teach our students financial fundamentals that they can use in alignment with the pursuit of their own passions. With the grasp of a few basic concepts, they could ideally save enough money to succeed in their own business endeavors.

9. Create a blog to report on your progress. What is the address?

http://www.slicshs.blogspot.com

SEE IT

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Proposal