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Dates and Times

The Challenge is about to begin!

Join hundreds of high school students across the state as they make money moves!

 

National Personal Finance Challenge Timeline:

  • FALL 2024 Session October 7-18 
  • Spring 2025 Session March 3-14
  • Registration Opens: September 1st Teachers can sign up for the competition and register their students in teams to compete in the competition.
  • October 7-14 (FALL) and March (3-14) Let the Games Begin! Student teams participate in the online preliminary test to qualify to advance to the state finals.
  • March 19, 2025 State Finalist teams for each division from both FALL and SPRING preliminaries are announced on CCEE website and notified by email by 6pm

  • State Finals The top scoring teams from the online preliminary compete for the State Championship!

  • April 1, 2025 - Northern CA State Final  The top scoring teams will compete in northern CA. This competition is expected to be held at the CSU East Bay Oakland Center.  Please sign this fill if you will be attending in person state finals.  Good Faith Competition Contract

  • April 8, 2025 - Southern CA State Final The top scoring teams will compete in southern CA. This competition is expected to be held at the Los Angeles branch location of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.  Please sign this fill if you will be attending in person state finals.  Good Faith Competition Contract

  • May 2025 CEE announces teams adavancing to Fianls 

  • June 2025 In Person National Competition: Finalist teams compete for the title of National Champions!

 

California State Finalists in National Personal Finance Challenge will win cash prices accordingly:

  • First place team: $500 per team member
  • Second place team: $300 per team member
  • Third place team: $100 per team member 

 

The student team who moves on to the National Personal Finance Challenge finals will have the opportunity to win: 

  • First place: $2000 for each team member, Banner
  • Second place: $1000 for each team member, Banner 
  • Third place: $500 for each team member, Banner 

The National Personal Finance Challenge is embracing a new format for the competition. For the second year in a row, teams at the finals will be assigned a case study for which they need to apply their financial knowledge to developing a plan for their case study and then presenting it at the event.

Click here to get more information about the National Personal Finance Competition.