Real World Money 2008

Real World Money 2008

Lifelong Learning Center
601 East Benjamin Avenue
Norfolk, Nebraska

April 11, 2008

Attention: Seventh Grade Teachers

You have three methods to register--with the on-line form linked below, with a downloadable MS Word file (fill out, print, and mail, or attach to e-mail to spreston2@unl.edu) or fill out and mail the hard copy your school received. Pictures will be taken during the conference and as a group attending. If you need additional information from the parents, a sample permission slip follows explaining permission to use photos. Permission Slip

To Register (Registration Deadline-March 28) Agenda

You and your seventh grade students are invited to attend a Money Camp on April 11, 2008 at the Lifelong Learning Center, Norfolk.

This interactive financial management program is designed to help 7th grade students become better prepared to make financial decisions as young adults.

Schools should bring one adult for every ten students. Teachers/adults will work with students to develop financial skills and put them into practice throughout the day in a real world simulation.

The students will:

Experience a real life simulation where youth can express their views on financial resources and learn the impact on future decisions
Learn about the psychology of money
Be able to make wise credit choices
Gain a better understanding of family finances
Realize the limits of financial resources both within the family and as a young adult.
Have fun learning together

Agenda

9:00		Registration
9:30		Program Block I or II
		Program Block I: Real World-Money - 2 hours Students will participate in a real life simulation where they are individuals or in families to manage in the "REAL WORLD"

		Program Block II: Credit for Today - 1 hour - Students learn the impact of credit used today on lifestyle tomorrow
		and
		Money and the Mind - 1 hour - Making the first car purchase is used to illustrate the impact of the mind on decision made as teens and adults.
11:30		Lunch
12:00		Program Block II or I
2:00		Group Processing and Evaluation
2:30		Safe Trip Home
		Note: Students are divided into 2 groups. Both groups will participate in both program blocks, alternating between Block I & II.

We hope you’ll sign-up today!

To Register 7th Grade Students

Return electronically
nerec.unl.edu/4h/realworldmoney/registration.htm

OR

Download the MS Word registration file from the web page listed above, fill in on your computer and mail to:

UNL Extension in Dixon County
57905 866 Rd
Concord, NE 68728
FAX: 402-584-3859

The program is limited to 150 students
Registration Cost-$3.00 per participant
Each person will need to provide their own sack lunch.

Registration must be received by March 28, 2008.

Sponsored by:

4-H and the University of Nebraska Extension
Northeast Research and Extension Center
Northeast Community College
Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Wayne
Phelps and Associates, Wayne
First Nebraska Bank, Stanton

Issued in furtherance of Extension Work Acts May 8, and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Elbert Dickey, Director of Cooperative Extension, University of Nebraska, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The 4-H Youth Development program abies with the nondiscrimination policies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.