BALTIMORE, May 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
NEWS
T. Rowe Price has launched a Teacher Edition of the Star Banks
Adventure game, a free app and online experience designed to teach
kids financial concepts while having fun. The game was designed
with a tile-matching concept to engage kids quickly and to
reinforce the financial concepts embedded within the game.
The new edition of the award-winning* game, which has been
downloaded 423,000 times since its launch in 2015, was created to
help teachers integrate the game into their lesson plans on
financial education. The game was also designed to help both
teachers and parents gain insight into what financial concepts
their kids understand and which concepts may need more explanation
and opportunity to practice.
The Star Banks Adventure game will appear the same to
kids, but the new version offers a Teacher Dashboard to assist in
administering the game in the classroom. Additionally, the
dashboard provides statistics that help teachers compare their
classrooms with others and track individual students'
progress.
With educational content created by CERTIFIED FINANCIAL
PLANNER™ professionals at T. Rowe Price, the Star
Banks Adventure game simplifies basic financial concepts and
focuses on:
- Setting a financial goal
- Prioritizing spending
- Rate of return
- Asset allocation
- Inflation and time horizon
- Diversification
Success in the Star Banks Adventure game requires smart
financial planning and wise investing. Players partner with Odal,
an alien guide, to stop Overlord Zek, an evil mastermind bent on
causing financial chaos. Players can use different star banks to
save coins and build space devices to travel to the planet Polaria.
Kids solve puzzles, answer quiz questions, and use power-ups to
triumph in this space adventure game, while interactive game
mechanics make keeping track of investments throughout the game
both fun and easy.
T. Rowe Price teamed up with Scholastic to help bring Star Banks
Adventure into the classroom. During the testing phase, feedback
from teachers included:
"These types of apps and the level of teacher supervision to
check student progress in real time are beneficial, and I have
enjoyed using them before. I think that my middle school students
would indeed relate to the visuals of the program. The visuals are
very modern and video game friendly, which appeal to middle
schoolers. As a mom of a middle school student myself, I would love
for my son to have this type of app or program available to him at
school."
- Sharon, IL
"It's a great enrichment
resource."
- Deborah, TX
The Star Banks Adventure game is available for download
on iOS and Android ® devices and online at starbanksadventure.com.
More information about the game and additional financial education
resources can be found on MoneyConfidentKids.com.
* The Star Banks Adventure game won the Excellence in
Financial Literacy Education's (EIFLE) Instructional Game of the
Year award in 2017
QUOTES
Renee Christoff, head of
Corporate Social Responsibility at T. Rowe Price
"We've
received great feedback about Star Banks Adventure and wanted to
strengthen the game's ability to serve as a classroom tool for
teachers. Since the game was developed and launched, we've tried to
find the right balance of education and fun. With Star Banks
Adventure, we wanted to bring financial education to life, both in
and outside of the classroom."
Ann Amstutz Hayes, senior vice
president of National Partnerships at Scholastic
"It's
important for young people to learn about the value of money. That
is why we are working with T. Rowe Price and teachers nationwide to
prepare middle- and high-schoolers for financial success."
ABOUT T. ROWE PRICE
Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group,
Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: TROW) is a global investment management
organization with $861.6 billion in
assets under management as of March 31,
2017. The organization provides a broad array of mutual
funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for
individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and
financial intermediaries. The company also offers a variety of
sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools.
T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment
approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and
fundamental research. For more information,
visit troweprice.com or our Twitter,
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T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc.
MONEY CONFIDENT KIDS and STAR BANKS ADVENTURE are registered
trademarks of T. Rowe Price, Group, Inc.
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