Student, Emily Weichel, holding a "Your Checking Account" kit pictured with PHS Instructor Kimberly Roberts left and First Savings representatives Dawn Kauffman and Laurie Heuckeroth, right.
As part of the “Money Management” course taught by Kimberly Roberts at Pennridge High School, participating students received a teaching aid entitled “Your Checking Account”. The kit is funded through First Savings Banking-Insurance-Investments and has been provided to the students for a number of years at no cost to them or the school district.
The “Your Checking Account” project takes students through the process of opening a checking account, endorsing checks, making deposits, maintaining a checkbook register, ATM transactions, electronic bill payment, telephone transfers and reconciling their checking account. “The simulation is awesome and the students love it because it makes learning real for them,” noted Roberts. “They are able to make the connection between what they are learning and how it will apply to their life at some point in the future.”
In addition to providing the kits, staff members from the Perkasie Fifth Street Branch of First Savings, Laurie Heuckeroth (Branch Manager)and Dawn Kauffman (Assistant Manager) spoke to a number of the Money Management classes on a wide variety of financial subjects, including FDIC Insurance as well as fraud and scam tactics.