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Financial Planning Academy

The Details

  • 2 week online summer program
    • 4 hours each day
    • 40 total hours of programming
  • Students learned about
    • Python programming
    • Data visualization
    • How to take care of their financial futures
  • Students created
    • A data science finance project

The Details

“I’m hoping to gain a basic understanding of finance, expand my programming knowledge, and be able to collaborate with others, while being exposed to new financial learning experiences which will be beneficial for me since I would like to major or minor in finance.”
– Anjali –

Participants

  • 33% of participants qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch (FARL)
  • 14% of participants will be first generation college students

“I hope to gain a better understanding of the financial responsibilities I will hold in the future and also how to accurately create a plan to be financially accountable. I also hope that by attending this camp I will gain enough knowledge to set myself up on the path to success for being financially literate.”
– Aditi –

“I am hoping to gain an understanding of how to properly spend/take money (take as in loans) in order to reduce the burden of college tuition on my parents.” – Haya –

Mentors

Kevin Lee

Sr. Content Developer, Deep Learning at NVIDIA

Vanessa Anguiano

Research Assistant at Heluna Health

Roshan Balla

Shreenidhi Kunta

Students in Action

Team 1:
Created student debt calculator: add up the costs for the 4 years in college for housing, tuition and fees, and meal plan (living expenses), to see how much they need to pay for college. then, keep an expected income right after college to gauge financial well-being. The project allows users to select from a collection of 6000 colleges to prepopulate tuition costs.
Team 2:
Created creating a database which outputs information regarding how to improve your financial state and learn about finance. Examples include how to improve credit score, what a mortgage is, non-racial banks.
Team 3:
Created a budgeting app using the 50-30-20 rule, using location statewise, loans, to output budgets as a pie chart.
Team 4:
Creating an expense feature which will be able to determine how much they will have leftover in savings after all of their expenses.
Program Impact

– Giselle-

We offer financial scholarships to support STEM college scholars in India by covering their annual tuition fees and enabling them to continue their education without interruption.

– Chloe –

We provide rural STEM scholars with free training in English communication, aptitude, leadership, and self-confidence – skills essential for academic and career success.

– Aditi –

We support STEM scholars with internship and placement readiness, and also mentor them in making informed decisions for a successful and meaningful career journey.

Survey Results
0 %
of students reported an increased level of comfort with finance concepts compared to before the camp
0 %
of students reported an increased ability to plan for their financial futures compared to before the camp
0 %
of students reported an increased understanding of and ability to use Python compared to before the camp