The Maryland Personal Finance Challenge is is an academic competition that provides high school students the opportunity to learn and then demonstrate knowledge and application of personal finance concepts during a one day academic competition.  Student teams from high schools across the state compete with the excitement of an athletic competition to be recognized as the Maryland State Champion.  The winning team is invited to represent Maryland at the National Personal Finance Challenge Competition. Teachers of economics, business, marketing, personal finance, and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) are urged to participate. There are no registration fees so this makes a great class activity.

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Past winners

2020 High School Winners

2020 State Champion–Mt. St. Joseph, Archdiocese of Baltimore

Advisor:  Julius Prezelski

TEAM MEMBERS:  Sean Donovan, Ryan Krohn, Brian Rzepkowski, Sam Sloop

2ND PLACE – Mount Hebron High, Howard County

Advisor:  Samantha Brookhart

TEAM MEMBERS:  Finnian Devine, Magnus Dunn, Dylan Holzman, Pablo Perrotti

3RD PLACE–Applications and Research Laboratory, Howard County

Advisor:  Maddy Halbach

TEAM MEMBERS: Jordan Abrams, Erin Conover, Panav Gududuri, Mary Samokhvalova

4TH PLACE–St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Montgomery County

Advisor:  Scott Cockran

TEAM MEMBERS:  Jonas Blum, Kevin Ouyang, Jake Ravitch, Xuezhi Xing