Money champs learn life lessons

Four Minnesota high school seniors who won the first National Personal Finance Challenge last month weren't even sure they should enter the contest.

Little Falls Community High School doesn't have a personal finance course. They had homework to do and yearbooks to sign. And by the time their economics teacher, Tom Stockard, mentioned the contest, they had mere weeks to prepare for the qualifying rounds. But Oliver Carrillo, Kayla Plante, Ben Surma and Olivia Warner were already used to competing together in economics contests and decided that since the subjects overlapped, they'd give it a shot.

Besides, what better area to study before heading off to college than money?

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