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That Crazy Cryptocurrency

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Knowledge@Wharton High School has been hearing from a lot of teens lately who are really into cryptocurrency, which is digital currency that holds a store of value similar to more traditional currencies, like the U.S. dollar or the euro. Bitcoin is the best-known cryptocurrency. It is completely digital and is…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Financial Technology

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Why This Matters Now Fintech, or financial technology, is an industry that combines technology and financial services to assist modern-day fiscal management. Technology is dramatically changing the way consumers handle personal financial transactions, everything from online banking and virtual wallets to bar code-based mobile payments and cryptocurrencies. The four key…Read More

Announcing the Round 4 and Grand Prize Winners for the 2018 KWHS Comment and Win Contest

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KWHS recently had the opportunity to interview Emma Himes, a University of Pennsylvania sophomore and director of development for JÜV Consulting, a team of high school and college students that helps companies and brands market effectively to Generation Z – typically 10-20 year-olds. Emma and her colleagues say that today’s…Read More

Emma Himes of JÜV Consulting Deciphers the Dynamic Style of Generation Z

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Our high school-aged readers – better known as Generation Z – intimately understand their world, navigating “Local Twitter” and knowing how to get friends’ attention with their latest “Snap Story.” And then there’s the rest of the world. While many companies and brands think they understand the best way to reach Gen…Read More

A Hackathon How-to

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Wesley P., a junior at Jericho High School in Long Island, N.Y., has had an incredibly busy summer. Along with a team of eight other high school students, including co-founder Jeffrey Yu, Wesley has been reaching out to companies, securing sponsors, organizing workshops, lining up speakers, and exploring all the…Read More

Connecting the Dots Between Architecture, Marijuana, Marketing and Life

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J. Victor Pan, 17, is a senior at Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio. Having lived near the central financial district of Shanghai, China, for seven years, he has long been interested in finance and business. As a U.S. high school student, he has pursued business in different ways. This summer,…Read More

Comic-Con and ‘The World’s First Hyperreality Spy Experience’

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Knowledge@Wharton’s technology and media editor, Kendall Whitehouse, recently returned from San Diego Comic-Con, one of his favorite annual haunts. Comic-Con International: San Diego, the pop culture fan fest that fills the Southern California city each summer, celebrates the fantastical worlds of superheroes, science fiction, and fantasy. Many of the event’s…Read More

Masterman’s Nia Weeks Talks about Her Summer Internship with the Penn Museum

As we looked around to feature interesting summer internships on KWHS, we were happy to discover one right in our backyard. The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – commonly called the Penn Museum – is the largest university museum in the U.S. and features collections of artifacts…Read More

Deconstructing the Investment Bank

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Ramon Rui-Xin Wang is 17 and a senior at Colchester Royal Grammar School in Colchester, Essex, U.K. In June, Wang met with Jamie McCrudden and Paul Windridge (both past Colchester students) of London’s Natixis Investment Bank during a law-careers event organized by his school’s alumni club. Wang founded the finance…Read More

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