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Educator Toolkit: Tariffs and Trade

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Why This Matters Now The escalating U.S.-China trade war has been dominating the headlines – with good reason. Last week, China said it planned to raise tariffs (government taxes on imports and exports) on $60 billion of U.S. goods as retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s previous move to hike…Read More

The 2019 Investment Competition Global Finale Showcases Financial Literacy at Its Finest

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While the KWHS Investment Competition has been around since 2012, each year it delivers unexpected ideas and experiences. The 2019 Global Finale weekend on May 3 and 4 was no exception. A new first: the top nine teams traveling to Wharton from India, China, Brazil and the U.S. to compete…Read More

Inside Berkshire Hathaway’s Spectacular Shareholders Meeting

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While most of her friends were back home in Calabasas, California, enjoying typical Saturdays at sporting events or just hanging out, Avalon Gross, who is 15, spent May 4, 2019, with tens of thousands of like-minded people in Omaha, Nebraska. Avalon was surrounded by a stadium-sized venue, animated vendors selling…Read More

How an Investment-minded Student Started Financial Literacy for You

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Sohil Varshney, 16, is a junior at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado, California. Last year, he led the team Oakridge Investment Enterprises during the KWHS Investment Competition, ultimately competing among the top 12 Region 3 finalists during the Global Finale at Wharton in May 2018. While there, Varshney…Read More

Julia Coquard on Creativity and Authenticity in the Beauty Business

Knowledge@Wharton High School's Emmie Stratakis sat down recently with Penn junior Julia Coquard to discuss her teen years as a well-known beauty blogger and makeup artist in Sweden through her blog Makeup Is Art, which she ran from 2010 to 2016. After getting her makeup done (check it out!), Emmie…Read More

Future Goals: Embracing Neurodiversity at Work

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When Georgia Tech business major Daniel Lee first met fellow student Kurt Vogel, he wasn’t sure how to deal with him. Vogel, a 26-year-old from Decatur, Georgia, was born with a birth defect in the brain that causes intellectual disabilities. As his campus peer mentor, Lee began spending time with…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Cold, Hard Cash

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Why This Matters Now In case you haven’t heard, April is Financial Literacy Month in the U.S. It’s a great time to lead a class discussion about money – that’s right: cold, hard cash. Today’s high school students -- the digital natives of Generation Z -- are much more likely…Read More

A Student’s Struggle to Speak English Leads to a Career as a Communicator

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Fiorella Riccobono first contributed to Knowledge@Wharton High School back in 2015, when she was interviewed for her high school social entrepreneurship project helping coffee bean farmers in Northwest Haiti. She has stayed in touch ever since, sharing insights from her college and social-awareness experiences at Florida State University. You can…Read More

Talking Lyft, Uber and the Flood of New Tech IPOs

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When last we heard from Ari Berke, who is now a high school junior at Yavneh Academy of Dallas in Texas, he was talking in a KWHS student essay about his fascination with investing in the stock market. He suggested that, “Many of today’s teens are blind to the potential…Read More

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