Skill-Life
Skill-Life
To create financial literacy learning opportunities for American youth.
Other | United States of America | Capacity Building |
Overview
While national attention around the importance of financial stability has increased U.S. schools often do not include any curriculum around financial literacy. As a result young adults are increasingly faced with the problems of personal debt and little financial know how. In 2005 alone for example an average college student carried a credit card balance exceeding $2500. Skill Life utilizes the growing popularity of internet based virtual worlds and harvests this excitement to create learning opportunities for American youth. It builds a virtual city in which each student s fictional persona has an occupation investments buddies and quests that teach math and financial skills. This online social network empowers youth with technology that can be used in and out of the classroom to build share and apply life skills. Skill Life was acquired by BancVue in January of 2010 where Felix serves as Chief Professor & General Manager of MoneyIsland.
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San Francisco, California United States of America