Your Money, Your Life! / Reality Check

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VOLUNTEERS  NEEDED!

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Reality Check / Your Money, Your Life is a personal finance simulation that gives students a taste of what it is like to make ends meet each month. Students are tasked with budgeting based on a given monthly income related to their preferred career choice. The students move through the simulation and “purchase” various needs and wants at different volunteer-staffed stations such as housing, cars, insurance, groceries, clothing, daycare, banking, insurance etc.

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Below are upcoming opportunities to help students learn how their education is connected to their career path, which is connected to their future finances, which is connected to their future quality of life. Join this fun, educational, personal finance simulation and help our future workforce learn how to budget their money!

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Details of each date are listed on the volunteer registration sites linked below:

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2025 Spring Events

 

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80+ VOLUNTEERS  NEEDED!

Register HERE

Tues., April 29

7:45 - 11:30 a.m.

at Northwest Shoals Community College, Gymnasium

(800 George Wallace Blvd., Muscle Shoals, AL  35661))

for 8th grade students in the NWSCC’s TRIO program

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Schools participating include:

Florence M. S.

Sheffield J. H.

Russellville M. S.

Tharptown

Phil Campbell

Haleyville

Colbert County H. S.

Colbert Heights H. S.

all Lawrence County Schools

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If you know any other adults that would be willing to volunteer, feel free to share this opportunity! 

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For more information, contact:

Heidi Tilenius
Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Lauderdale County Office
hlt0005@auburn.edu
256-766-4846 office

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