Teaching Teens How to Budget

Our team had such a fun time volunteering at Junior Achievement’s Reality Fair at Elms College Park! The Teen Reality Fair gives high school students the opportunity to role-play 25-year-olds who must make decisions about money based on their chosen jobs. Students are assigned a salary, correlating to their chosen job, and a credit score. They then visit up to 15 different booths, including transportation, housing, education, entertainment, nutrition, insurance, loan center, savings and retirement, charitable giving, etc., and make decisions about how to budget their monthly salary.