Digital banking app for teenagers and youths, Greenlight, launched a monetary literacy recreation at present.The sport, Greenlight Degree Up, is designed to show monetary abilities to youngsters from kindergarten to twelfth grade.Solely 23 states within the U.S. require colleges to supply classes in private finance.
Greenlight, a digital banking app for teenagers and youths, unveiled a monetary literacy recreation at present referred to as Greenlight Degree Up.
The sport goals to show youngsters from kindergarten to twelfth grade abilities that they’ll use to enhance their monetary well-being. Many monetary abilities usually are not taught in colleges. Actually, solely 23 U.S. states require colleges to show a private finance course. Greenlight Degree Up provides classes on incomes, spending, saving, investing, managing credit score, revenue, taxes, and extra.
The sport was crafted by educational and recreation design consultants to maintain youngsters engaged, utilizing cash and stars as rewards.
Faculties, academics, and college students can entry Greenlight Degree Up without cost through Greenlight for Lecture rooms, a web based monetary literacy library for teenagers in grades kindergarten by way of 12. Greenlight for Lecture rooms will launch later this 12 months.
Greenlight was based in 2014 and provides a cash administration platform for households. The corporate has served 5 million mother and father and children, providing them real-life expertise within the monetary world with credit score and debit playing cards, together with a tandem cellular app. Through the use of the playing cards with assist from their mother and father, Greenlight helps youngsters construct abilities to handle their earnings, financial savings, spending, and giving; and empowers youngsters to be taught to speculate. In 2021, Greenlight raised $260 million in a spherical that valued the corporate at $2.3 billion.
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