Statewide Regional Ceremonies Honor Student
Economics and Financial Literacy Award Winners
The Texas Council on Economic Education (TCEE), a nonprofit
organization dedicated to improving economic and financial literacy
in Texas schools, announced that PlainsCapital Bank is the
underwriting sponsor for TCEE’s statewide spring awards ceremonies.
Each spring, TCEE holds its annual awards for the winners of the
Stock Market Game, National Economics Challenge and the Personal
Finance Challenge. Nearly 1,000 first-, second-, and third-place
students in grades 4 – 12 will be recognized at five regional
ceremonies taking place this month in Dallas, Houston, New
Braunfels, El Paso, and Brownsville, as well as several smaller
ceremonies at local schools.
“It’s wonderful to receive support for our initiatives from
vital community partners like PlainsCapital Bank,” said TCEE
Chairman John Ivie. “It enables us to deliver on our mission to
provide teachers with hands-on lessons and programs that allow
students to practice implementing real-life economic and personal
financial skills and helps pave the way to a life of economic
security. By educating teachers who educate students, TCEE reaches
hundreds of thousands of young people each year, increasing the
impact of each dollar spent through the multiplier effect of
teaching teachers.”
For almost 50 years, TCEE has been working with kindergarten
through 12th grade teachers, providing hands-on lessons and
programs that assist students in developing real-life economic and
personal financial skills. The awards ceremonies are an opportunity
to showcase students’ achievements and to recognize the teachers
who help make it happen, while presenting cash prizes to the
winning teams from around the state. In addition to the cash
awards, winners in each grade level and region for the fall,
spring, and year-long competitions receive trophies, medals,
plaques, and certificates. Along with sponsoring the awards
ceremonies across the state, PlainsCapital is hosting the North
Texas awards presentation—the largest of the five regional
ceremonies—at its Victory Park branch in Dallas on May 8.
“We’re very excited to support programs like the Stock Market
Game and the economics and personal finance contests, which educate
students about money, finance, and economics in engaging ways,”
said PlainsCapital Bank President and CEO Jerry Schaffner. “Young
people are energized by money, since it already plays a big role in
their lives, and they want to know how to control it. One thing
that never ceases to amaze me is their reaction to investment and
moneymaking. The entrepreneurial spirit comes natural to them, and
it’s up to us to help harness it.”
TCEE’s 2017–2018 awards ceremonies for Dallas, Houston, and
New Braunfels are listed below. The El Paso, Brownsville, and local
school ceremonies are in the process of being finalized.
North Texas
Region: Dallas
Houston
Region
Austin & San
Antonio Region: New Braunfels
May 8, 2018 May 10, 2018
May 15, 2018
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
PlainsCapital Bank Victory Park
Amegy Bank Tower
Comal ISD Administration Building
2323 Victory Ave., 5th floor
1717 W. Loop South, 9th floor
1404 IH 35 North, Boardroom
Dallas, TX 75219
Houston, TX 77027
New Braunfels, TX 78130
*The awards ceremonies are by invitation only, but the media
is invited.
Schaffner acknowledged the ability of the TCEE-sponsored
competitions to create learning experiences for students in a way
that makes decision-making come alive, adding, “They get to apply
the knowledge they’ve gained, using economics and personal finance
skills to help them make real-world decisions, from managing a
household budget to decisions involved in the production and
marketing of goods and services.”
ABOUT THE AWARDS COMPETITIONS
Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association (SIFMA) Stock Market Game™
The TCEE-sponsored Stock Market Game is an educational
simulation designed to develop math, personal finance, writing,
research, and critical thinking skills while educating students on
the stock market and American economic system. For the 2017-2018
school year, approximately 20,000 Texas students in grades 4 – 12
participated in the competition, in which teams are given a
hypothetical $100,000 to invest in the real stock market, making
buy, sell and hold decisions on common stock, mutual funds, and
bonds. Over the respective 10-week fall and spring simulations, as
well as the year-long competition, team members work together to
manage their portfolios and create a successful investment
management strategy.
Council for Economic Education (CEE)
National Economics Challenge
The CEE’s National Economics Challenge is one of the country’s
most prestigious student economics competitions. Students compete
in the college-bowl type competition, which is designed to test
teams on their understanding of basic and advanced economics
concepts and their ability to apply problem-solving and critical
thinking skills to real-world issues and current events. In 2016, a
team from Houston won the national competition.
Personal Finance
Challenge
The TCEE’s Personal Finance Challenge is an opportunity for
middle and high school students to demonstrate their personal
finance knowledge on topics including spending, credit, savings,
investing, income, and money management. Team members work
collaboratively to find practical solutions to life’s money
challenges.
PlainsCapital first partnered with TCEE in 2013 to develop a
targeted financial literacy curriculum for seventh- and
eighth-grade students. PlainsCapital’s continued funding support
ensures that the TCEE-sponsored curriculum is provided free of
charge to teachers across the state, so they can incorporate
financial literacy principles into their classroom instructions, as
well as to organizations that provide programs for underserved
students.
“These programs provide our young people with tools they need to
develop their own personal understanding of our economic and
financial system, the role they play in it and how they can
succeed,” said Ivie.
About Texas Council on Economic Education
Since its founding in 1969, The Texas Council on Economic
Education’s mission is to improve the quality of economic and
financial literacy education in schools across the state,
establishing the seeds of a healthier Texas economy and paving the
way to a life of greater economic security for its residences. TCEE
accomplishes this through its statewide network of university
centers, where economics professors work hand-in-hand with teachers
to develop and deliver the best economic and financial literacy
curriculums and programs available. For more information, visit
EconomicsTexas.org.
About PlainsCapital Bank
As of March 31, 2017, Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank, the sixth
largest Texas-headquartered bank by deposit market share*, operated
63 branches with more than 1,200 employees providing highly
personalized relationship banking through a single point of
contact. Offering commercial lending, treasury management, private
banking, and trust and wealth management services, PlainsCapital
Bank empowers responsive, local decision making in each of its
major markets: Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston,
Lubbock, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio. PlainsCapital Bank
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings (NYSE: HTH). Find
more information at PlainsCapital.com. *Source: SNL Financial
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