Education Pilot a Success!

Posted by Morgan Vandagriff on 15 May 2008 | 0 Comments

This week we completed our first successful pilot of the Banzai Education Edition in real classrooms. With the help of a highly experienced teacher named Susan Edwards of Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah, 67 students were taught how to budget and save responsibly using Banzai’s unique “jars” system.

Susan, who has been teaching for over 20 years and is respected across the state in business education, said,

“I love the way Banzai uses jars to teach the principles of  personal finance. My students really enjoyed the system. I look forward to using it again next semester.”

Susan used Banzai as supplemental curriculum in two financial literacy classes and one accounting class. The students’ reactions were fantastic! Approximately 80% of the students taught rated the system “Excellent” or “Good” in an anonymous survey. As part of the classes, students were required to track at least four personal expense transactions according to a self-assigned plan which was organized into virtual jars.  A number of the students went well beyond the required assignment and made long detailed records of their spending habits.

We have written a case study which covers the pilot at Wasatch High School in greater detail.