Baker Boyer Financial institution names Finance Academy scholarship winners

Baker Boyer Financial institution named the primary winners of its $1,000 Finance Academy program scholarships.

Recipients are Aiden Carver and Talia Billingsley, 2022 Walla Walla Excessive Faculty graduates, and Dilraj Kaur, a 2022 graduate of McLoughlin Excessive Faculty in Milton-Freewater. The proceeds will help their persevering with academic endeavors.

By the top of Might, greater than 400 college students in 15 faculties enrolled within the Finance Academy and accomplished greater than 800 hours of studying and 1,375 modules.

By finishing the digital monetary schooling program supplied by the financial institution by excessive faculties throughout the area, the scholars had an opportunity on the scholarships.

The Finance Academy program’s classes put together college students to make sensible monetary selections centered on problem-solving and self-reflection and supply digital video games that present real-life eventualities to apply important ideas round budgeting, retirement planning, bank cards, pupil loans and extra.

“This program is necessary as a result of not solely does it train primary monetary abilities, but in addition contains a variety of different subjects, resembling insurance coverage, taxes, mortgages and rather more,” mentioned program head Chris Christianson.

“These topics are sometimes not taught in faculties and are inevitable in maturity and due to this fact depart college students to attempt to determine it out on their very own once they come to it.”

“Baker Boyer is obsessed with monetary schooling as a result of it entails important ideas that can be utilized in lots of points of life,” Christianson mentioned. “Introducing the youth to those monetary competencies early on will assist them in turning into well-versed adults.”