Delta Neighborhood’s Youth Essay Contest Promotes Monetary Accountability in Youngsters

Savannah Herald

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Left to Proper: Department Supervisor Megan Byrd (Delta Neighborhood), Principal Amanda Cavin (Peachtree Metropolis Elementary), 2024 Youth Essay Contest winner Scarlet Melton and third grade trainer Rachel Badley (Peachtree Metropolis Elementary)

Peachtree City Elementary Winner copy — Left to Proper: Department Supervisor Megan Byrd (Delta Neighborhood), Principal Amanda Cavin (Peachtree Metropolis Elementary), 2024 Youth Essay Contest winner Scarlet Melton and third grade trainer Rachel Badley (Peachtree Metropolis Elementary)

Credit score Union to Award 21 Elementary College College students with Cash of their Financial savings Account

Delta Neighborhood Credit score Union is inviting third, fourth and fifth graders in metro Atlanta to enter its 2025 Youth Essay Contest. The credit score union will start accepting submissions on March 1, and is selling accountable cash administration at an early age with this yr’s essay query: How does saving cash now show you how to construct for the longer term?

College students should write an essay response of 75 phrases or much less and submit it on-line atDeltaCommunityCU.com/YouthEssayContest by March 31. The competition is open to college students within the third by fifth grades enrolled in a college inside the 16 metro Atlanta counties the credit score union serves.

Delta Neighborhood will choose seven scholar winners from every grade degree based mostly on their essay responses and every scholar winner will obtain a $100 Delta Neighborhood Youth Financial savings Account. The essay contest winners will likely be introduced in April.

The credit score union launched the competition in 2016 to acknowledge the significance of youth monetary training and put money into future generations. As a part of its dedication to group training, Delta Neighborhood additionally presents two scholarship applications and tons of of free courses in metro Atlanta by its Monetary Schooling Middle.

Final yr two of the winners had been from Fayette County: Scarlett Melton, a 3rd grader from Peachtree Metropolis Elementary College, and Udisha Sarkar, third grader from Peeples Elementary College.

Left to proper: Former Principal Buffy Blodgett (Peeples Elementary), 2024 Youth Essay Contest winner Udisha Sarkar and Department Supervisor Megan Byrd (Delta Neighborhood)

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