Banzai for Education

Posted by Morgan Vandagriff on 19 March 2008 | 0 Comments

One of the more interesting insights we’ve gained since launching Banzai in the fall of last year is that young people take to it like a fish to water. While the system was designed with the needs of adults in mind, a not-insignificant portion of our user base consists of high school and college students. These users quickly grasp the various nuances of Banzai and can easily see the value of following The Banzai Way.

As a means of capitalizing on this trend, we’re preparing to introduce Banzai for Education, a new version built specifically for use in a junior high and high school business, accounting, economics, and financial literacy courses. A separate teacher interface will give educators access to lesson plans, demonstration accounts, and transactions entered by their students as part of the course. Our home state of Utah recently implemented a financial literacy curriculum requirement for all high school students. We expect that this trend will soon be manifest in a number of other states as well. The skills students will obtain from using Banzai will be of benefit to them throughout their lives. Furthermore, we expect that by introducing students to Banzai before they have established ingrained financial habits, we will have a great chance of permanently converting them to The Banzai Way.