Who Are We? Finance for Youth @ UBC is a newly established club at UBC. Our goal is to promote awareness for financial literacy amongst university students. Our team consists of university students varying in age and faculties. Some of our events include speaker sessions, dessert nights, fundraisers, etc. As well, we provide volunteering opportunities [...]
miniFLY High School Chapter Committee We are currently recruiting a team of high school students for our miniFLY High School Chapter Committee for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. What this team will do is not only set up and maintain a FLY school club in their own high school, but also organize community-wide events for [...]
OPPORTUNITIES FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS FLY Conference The FLY Conference is a one-day conference targeted to teach students basic personal financial knowledge. Last year was a third annual F.L.Y. conference, which included teachers and business professionals teaching workshops based on the F.L.Y. curriculum. The conference also included a tradeshow where financial organizations were available to answer [...]
During our last FLY meeting, I received the privilege of learning about a number of financial concepts. Our first lesson was about monetary cost, opportunity cost, and sunk cost.
At our last finance lesson by Percy, we learnt about different types of investments.
Are you looking forward to our annual FLY Conference and are eager to expand your financial knowledge? To honour your passion and enthusiasm, FLY has created the “LIGHTS! CAMERA! SUCCESS! Video Contest”. Through the contest, you and your friends can create and submit a video showing us how financial literacy is important to you. And [...]
To further our reach within the community, we are going to start mini FLY Chapters across different local high schools. Are you entrepreneurial? Are you innovative and creative? Do you have a passion for organizing events? If so, we would like to invite you to join our FLY Chapters Start‐Up Committee.
This year, F.L.Y. was awarded the U-ROC award as an asset champion!
For those who are unfamiliar with U-ROC, the U-ROC Awards celebrates the achievements of youth, youth groups, and asset champions within the Richmond Community each year.
We are excited to announce that ING Direct, our title sponsor for Pay It Forward, has offered a generous prize for the conference! As you know, the Pay It Forward conference will feature several competition-based activities. Of course, the winning team will be awarded for the enthusiasm, knowledge and teamwork that they display throughout the [...]
Tune in to CBC Radio One tomorrow morning to hear F.L.Y. live on air! Gabrielle Chan, our co-chair for F.L.Y.’s Pay It Forward Conference, will be going on The Early Edition show to talk to host Rick Cluff about our organization and our conference. Gabrielle will also share with everyone some financial tips and advice, [...]