EURO CHALLENGE

MEMBERSHIP:  Open to freshmen and sophomores, grades 9 - 10 ONLY

NUMBER OF MEETINGS:  Once a week from September to April

MEETINGS:  Once per week before or after school

CONTACT:  Ms. Pennetti

EMAIL:  spennetti@rumsonfairhaven.org  

Euro Challenge is an exciting educational opportunity for 9th and 10th grade high school students to learn about economics and the European Union. Students will develop a presentation answering specific questions about the European economy and the euro. They are also asked to pick one member country of the “euro area” to examine an economic problem at the country level, and to identify policies for responding to that problem. Students will compete in the Euro Challenge Competition, which takes place in New York in March or April.  Euro Challenge pursues the following goals:

• Increase the awareness and the understanding of the European Union and European Central Bank’s economic role among the member nations, the public, teachers, and students.
• Develop students’ research, cooperation, presentation, and critical-thinking skills.
• Promote interest in politics or economics, not only as a subject for undergraduate and postgraduate study, but as the basis for a career.
• Foster a closer relationship between schools and the European Commission to the United States.

CONTACT:  Ms. Schmidt

The Euro Challenge is designed to bring real-world politics and economics into the classroom and to allow students to use their economic and political knowledge of the European Union and Euro Zone to recommend fiscal and monetary policy solutions to a central problem.  The program helps students gain a better understanding of the forces driving the European Union’s economy and the impact of those forces on them and individual member nations.  The Euro Challenge pursues the following goals:

• Increase the awareness and the understanding of the European Union and European Central Bank’s economic role among the member nations, the public, teachers, and students.
• Develop students’ research, cooperation, presentation, and critical-thinking skills.
• Promote interest in politics or economics, not only as a subject for undergraduate and postgraduate study, but as the basis for a career.
• Foster a closer relationship between schools and the European Commission to the United States.