Communities in Schools
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
Expectations
“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 –
“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 –
Participants
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Grade
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# of participants
|
|---|---|
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9
|
4
|
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10
|
6
|
|
11
|
4
|
|
12
|
6
|
|
College Freshman
|
1
|
|
Race/Ethnicity
|
# of participants
|
|---|---|
|
Asian or Pacific Islander
|
13
|
|
Black or African American
|
2
|
|
Hispanic or Latino
|
3
|
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Other
|
3
|
|
State
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# of participants
|
|---|---|
|
California
|
9
|
|
DC
|
1
|
|
Florida
|
2
|
|
Massachusetts
|
2
|
|
Missouri
|
2
|
|
Oregon
|
2
|
|
Texas
|
3
|
- 33% of participants qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch (FARL)
- 14% of participants will be first generation college students
Mentors
Professional Mentors
Kevin Lee
Sr. Content Developer, Deep Learning at NVIDIA
Vanessa Anguiano
Research Assistant at Heluna Health
Peer Mentors
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
“The program benefitted me because I’ve never had a class like this before and I feel like I’ve learned so much in the past 2 weeks. I feel more prepared for my future.”
– Giselle-
“This program has helped me cement my desire to pursue a career in a stem field and has also helped me budget for the future.”
– Chloe –
“I enjoyed working with a diverse team from all over the US, learning under the mentorship of Kevin and Vanessa who made the class seem welcoming and engaging, and all of the hands on financial activities.”
– Aditi –
