When it comes to personal finance, several Iola Middle School students could give most adults a leg up on how to manage their money.
An IMS team, composed of Clara Wicoff, Abigail Taylor, Taylor Heslop, Yohon Sinclair and Ricky Dawn and coached by gifted education facilitator Jean Johns, won the 2011 Kansas Personal Finance Challenge at Wichita State University last week.
They, and members of teams from five other middle schools, had advanced from an online preliminary round. The IMS students were tested on their knowledge of spending and credit, saving and investing and income and money management.
Second place in the middle school division went to McLouth Middle School. Blue Valley North won the high school division. More than 1,400 students competed statewide in the two divisions.
The Kansas Personal Finance Challenge program is offered annually by the Kansas Council for Economic Education, a nonprofit organization hosted by Wichita State University, with the mission of educating Kansas students to be economically and financially literate.
IMS students win finance challenge
