Abby Stackle ‘20 is one of ten national winners of the Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF)’s Payback Challenge Essay Contest! NGPF is a non-profit which works to provide students with financial literacy skills needed for an increasingly complex financial world. One of their tools is a game–The Payback Challenge. This interactive, web-based game puts players through a series of decisions designed to mimic the real-life tug of war of competing desires: new or used books,

by Jacob Sobotta ’22 (Seton House) This past summer, I went to Moscow, Russia with NSLI-Y for a six-week-long Russian language program. While in Moscow I spent five days a week studying Russian in a classroom environment The Moscow School of Economics, five minutes away from the Kremlin. When I started the program I spoke no Russian. By the time the end of the program rolled around, I was able to give a 10-minute presentation

by Seamus Sweeney ’21 (Seton House) Last month, Mrs. Scholz’s Sports and Entertainment Marketing class started a new unit on entrepreneurship. We had the unique opportunity of being taught this unit by local entrepreneur, Mr. Anson Flake. Mr. Flake is the former CEO of local company Hydroworx. Hydroworx is a company that was started in 1997 by Mr. Flake and his business partners. Hydroworx makes underwater treadmills. These treadmills are used to help rehabilitate people,