FRAMINGHAM, MA - What should a teenager do with a first paycheck? At the Framingham Farmers Market this fall, a team from Dover-Sherborn High School shared free resources that help students work through questions like that before they have to answer them on their own.

Frank Robbins, Liam Waite, and Francesco Arena run Money Moves MA, a student-led project that brings lessons on budgeting, banking, investing basics, and spotting scams into middle and high school classrooms.

At the market, the team used its table to introduce the project and share the online resources with visitors.

Since students may be at the time in their lives when they earn their first paycheck, a good place to start is budgeting -- work out what’s coming in, what has to go out, and how much to keep for an expense that hasn’t come up yet.

In one of the team’s Math Connections Lessons, students build a budget with $1,000 and then have to revise it when an unexpected expense comes up.

The Money Moves MA team taught a high school economics class with a guest speaker from Fidelity and hosted a free evening session in their school cafeteria with speakers from Fidelity, BNY Mellon, Fireside Tavern Sherborn, and Capstone Partners.

Framingham families can find the team’s free lessons and calculators at https://MoneyMovesMA.com.

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Source: Press Release submitted by Frank Robbins, Money Moves MA.