Finalist teams move on to compete for more than $50,000 in college scholarships.
The first-ever H&R Block Dollars & Sense Challenge is kicking into second gear. Eight finalist teams from Round 1 of the Challenge are moving on to the National finals which will be hosted by DECA in Louisville, KY April 24-27.
To date, thousands of teens have demonstrated their financial fitness doing things like managing a schedule, filing taxes, paying bills and managing credit cards. Students have the opportunity to qualify for the National Challenge finals in Round 2—with $50,000 in college scholarships up for grabs, things are getting exciting.
Check out the finalist teams below and check back to see what happens next.
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Homewood-Flossmoor
High School
Flossmoor, IL
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Apponequet High School
Lakeville, MA
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Entrepreneurship
Focus Program
Lincoln, NE
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Albert Campbell
Collegiate Institute
Scarborough, Ontario
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Clements High School
Clements, TX
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Frisco High School
Frisco, TX
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Mount Rainier High School
Des Moines, WA
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Kamiakin High School
Kennewick, WA
Let's Talk Dollars & Sense
The numbers don’t lie. A large percentage of today’s teens graduate without an understanding of how to properly manage their own finances. So we created H&R Block Dollars & Sense™, a comprehensive initiative to help high school students learn the essentials of financial fitness, like how to manage a debit card, balance a budget, save money and avoid debt.
This year, through H&R Block Dollars & Sense, we’re donating more than $1 million in personal finance curriculum and rewarding students with college scholarships. Applications for the 2010-2011 school year grants are
available online now through February 15, 2010. With the help of our partners, Knowledge Matters and DECA, we will create a new generation of financially fit Americans, teens who are ready for whatever the real world throws at them. To us, that makes perfect dollars and sense.