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OUR ACADEMIC YEAR-LONG PROGRAM HAS THREE COMPONENTS
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1. CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION/FINANCIAL PROJECT-BASED (FALL) Female financial professionals lead classroom workshops including hands-on financial math projects on money management and more during the five-week program. Our cutting-edge, open-sourced curriculum rips from the headlines, discusses public policy, economic policy, and stock and bond markets. Workshops cover topics including but not limited to student loan debt, auto financing, stock portfolio composition and performance, and interest rates.
2. WALL STREET EXPERIENCE FIELD TRIP (FALL)
The field trip is a capstone experience whereby students are given a rare glimpse into local corporate office settings, workplaces and work lives of financiers. The experience allows the students to shadow female treasury officers, wealth managers, comptrollers, analysts, traders, entrepreneurs, and more. For many of our students, this is their first glimpse into the world of applied math and finance, opening their eyes to a new world of possibilities. This is a critical part of the year-long program as many high school girls self-select out of finance and economics before even getting to college. By taking them on a trip where they see women whom they have come to know personally, working in highly skilled positions at financial institutions, we show our girls a glimpse into their own potential future. If they can see it, they can be it.
3. MENTORSHIP (SPRING)
Students are matched with mentors who help them identify, and then emphasize individual strengths, discuss college and career preparation,and further develop positive money management habits. For those not continuing onto college, they explore post-secondary job opportunities, internships, and career requirements (certification or licensure). Through personal example, explanation, and tours of financial firms, our mentors provide students with up-close information about personal finance best practices and work-life issues in the financial profession. Mentors also help interpret the students' career and strengths assessment which identifies their unique set of natural talents to maximize their potential. This pairing also provides an early social capital for girls to network with women in business.
WHAT WE DO
Rock The Street, Wall Street is a financial and investment literacy program designed to spark the interest of a diverse population of high school girls into careers of finance.
Finally, RTSWS equips students, regardless of their ultimate career choice, to appreciate the financial landscape and thus to be better citizens of the world that we finance, use, and share.
WHAT DOES A TYPICAL CHAPTER LOOK LIKE?
• All high school girls from grades 9 through 12 are welcome• Chapter meetings are held at a high school campus • Average 20 girls in each chapter• Each chapter meets one hour per week, for 5 weeks in Fall, and 5 weeks in Spring
Who better to address the problem of financial illiteracy than members from the financial services industry? Our workshops are conducted by volunteers who are all active female financial professionals.
OUR PROGRAMS AND SUPPORT
We encourage our students to explore a career in finance by acquainting the girls with female executives in the industry. We also:• Provide personal finance and investment curriculum that is ripped from the headlines and is relevant• Coordinate logistics for the schools, students, mentors, field trips, and more• Provide training for volunteers• Match girls with mentors who can become lifelong connections• Identify and train volunteers - all female financial pros• Identify and connect with potential partner high schools in local cities• Possible job shadowing and summer internships... and more!
Girls learn about savings and investments, budgeting, the capital markets and their role in maintaining the welfare of their families and the economy, while simultaneously helping them see the real world application of the math content they learn in the classroom. RTSWS lifts girls’ interest and ability to persist in the STEM field of Finance.
Our goal is to create a society where women are financially literate, independent and equally represented in the field offinance, all the way up to the C-suites. If we change who invests, we will change what we invest in.
Since launching in 2013, more than 2,325 GIRLS ACROSS 15 US CITIES including 69% from minority populations and 44% from low-income households have
graduated from our year-long program.
On average*, our alumnae demonstrate a 92% INCREASE in financial and investment literacy.* Three-year average
92%
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Our alumnae are 4.8x MORELIKELY to pursue college majors in finance, economics or related fields than the national averageof female college students.
