DETROIT, June 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Marygrove College will host the "Youth Enterprise Academy (YEA): Leadership, Economics, and Personal Finance" for minority 9th and 10th graders from July 9-13, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on its campus in Detroit.
Sponsored by Marygrove's Center for Economic Education, Chase Bank and the Michigan Council on Economic Education, YEA will provide the skills needed to be successful in high school and beyond. The 5-day summer program will focus on the steps to economic success, will introduce the teens to how our free market economy works and their roles in it and explain how the economic choices they make today can influence their chances for future success.
YEA will feature:
* Tips on how to prepare for college while in high school
* Principles of personal investing: spending, saving, credit, forms
of investing
* Analysis of corporations to decide whether to buy, hold or sell
their stock
* Overview of how the free market economy works
* Introduction to the economic way of thinking
* Guest speakers from Detroit-area businesses
* Field trip to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago-Detroit Branch
Cost is $25 per student. Each student who attends all sessions, is an active participant and completes all assignments will receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond. Minority students who are entering or completing the 9th or 10th grade are eligible to enroll.
For more information, please contact Martha Rowland, director of the Marygrove College Center for Economic Education, at mrowland@marygrove.edu or 313-927-1464.
Marygrove College is a private liberal arts college located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music, dance, the fine arts and many others. Nearly 3,000 students are enrolled in its online and distance learning Master in the Art of Teaching program as well as more than 5,000 in its non-credit programs. Call 866-313-1927 or visit www.marygrove.edu.
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