Rocky Mountain College Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) students help youngsters learn about business

In classrooms across Billings, students from Rocky Mountain College http://www.entrepreneur.com/colleges/ugrad/1023673.html are teaching their younger peers about the importance of saving and investing, undoubtedly a foreign concept to many students who rely on their parents for money.

During a recent afternoon at Riverside Middle School, Rocky students Andy Lohse and Toby Rundle gave eighth-graders in Susan Daly’s World of Work class a hands-on introduction to the stock market. After laptop computers were handed out and booted up, students dove into investment sites like Yahoo! Finance, where they eagerly typed in stock trading symbols and company names.

Lohse and Rundle are among two dozen Rocky students involved in Students In Free Enterprise, an international organization that helps college students hone their leadership and entrepreneurial skills through service projects that emphasize financial literacy, environmental stewardship and business ethics. SIFE members invest hundreds of hours into community service projects.

By Tom Howard

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