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Emergent Bilingual Students Finance Field Trip


Media Release

Emergent Bilingual students from Centennial, Compton, and Dominguez High Schools recently took a field trip to the Junior Achievement Finance Park and participated in a budget simulation experience. During the visit, attendees learned how their future financial decisions impact their potential income and overall quality of life.

In the simulation, students received a randomly selected “life persona,” which included a personal profile with details about their adult life, with varying annual salaries, job titles, age, marital status, debt ratios, credit scores, and total savings amounts.

Guided by volunteer facilitators from companies such as HSBC Finance Corporation and New Omni Bank, students visited life-like storefronts to explore how line items in their monthly budget affect their simulated finances.

Field Trip
Field Trip
Field Trip