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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is actively involved
in three national competitions for students: Economics
Challenge, Fed Challenge, and LifeSmarts.
Fed Challenge
http://www.bos.frb.org/education/competitions/econcha.htm
Fed Challenge is a national economic education competition
for teams of high school students who study real
U.S. economic conditions and then present their analyses
and recommendations for interest rate policy. The
students’ work
mirrors the work of the Federal Reserve System’s
Open Market Committee.
For more information on Fed
Challenge, contact Deborah Bloomberg at (617) 973-3371.
LifeSmarts
http://www.lifesmarts.org
LifeSmarts, a consumer education competition for
teens in grades 9 to 12, is sponsored by the National
Consumers
League. Its stated aim is to cover “information that
consumers need to know to function in today’s and tomorrow’s
complex marketplace.” Competition questions focus on
five main areas of consumer knowledge:
• personal finance
• health
and safety
• environment
• technology
• consumer rights
and responsibilities.
For more information,
be sure to check out LifeSmarts at www.lifesmarts.org or,
in Massachusetts, contact Sharon St. Louis, Massachusetts
Coordinator for LifeSmarts, at (617)
973-3262.
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