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FLCCT News

FLCCT President speaks to channel 7 news

President Angela Jo Medina gave an interview to channel 7's Good Day program to talk about financial literacy.  See the video by clicking here.

 Appreciation Dinner for 2010 Volunteers

FLCCT honors its volunteers with an annual appreciation celebration. This year's was held at the Brick Oven down town. Vice-President Bob Sandera recognized exceptional volunteers as well as our administrative assistent, who survived the hazard of the FLCCT office flooding when the roof collapsed under rainwater earlier in the year! At the dinner, volunteers munched and mingled with one another and FLCCT board of directors members. Our volunteers also learned how their face would look on the 50 or 100 dollar bill... terrific! Thank you again, all our volunteers.

 

SavvyKids Conference 2010

FLCCT was pleased to take part in both the Savvy Kids Conferences held in 2010. In addition to teaching consumer savviness classes, where kids could price and taste compare several brands of 'fruity ohs' cereal*, we ran an activity table that was very popular. Younger kids could make rubbings of beautiful coins from different countries. They enjoyed seeing and tracing the deer, horses, birds and designs found on foreign coins. Meanwhile, older kids could guess by touch what coins were contained inside cloth sacks. Very few knew every U.S. coin by touch, but for those that did, there was an 'extra credit' coin, a British pound. Yes, someone knew it by touch! Kids of every age enjoyed posing as the face on a 50 and 100 dollar bill while cell phone cameras snapped!
*The big surprise of the taste tests was that the bulk brand was the landslide winner, both in cost and in preference!

  

The Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas activities are coordinated by Texas AgriLife Extension, Travis County. FLCCT Programs serve all people regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.