GREENWOOD PROJECT

Over the course of six (6) weeks, accepted students are immersed in an intensive program that covers a combination of financial and technical education with extensive exposure to careers in the financial services industry. In addition to each institute's curriculum, students meet and interact with a minimum of 100 corporate volunteers from across the finance industry and from some of the nation's largest financial firms, learning about their companies, their roles, and various career pathways into the industry.in the fintech institute, students work through a curriculum that covers professional skills, an introduction to coding, and basic functions of the coding language python. Students complete mini- projects where they apply their learning about coding to complete basic financial analysis. The program culminates in a final coding presentation where students write code to analyze market data and create an investing strategy based on their analysis.

Over the course of six (6) weeks, accepted students are immersed in an intensive program that covers a combination of financial and technical education with extensive exposure to careers in the financial services industry. In addition to each institute's curriculum, students meet and interact with a minimum of 100 corporate volunteers from across the finance industry and from some of the nation's largest financial firms, learning about their companies, their roles, and various career pathways into the industry. Our high school students come from 45 distinct zip codes in the chicagoland area. In the financial institute, students work through a curriculum that covers professional skills, topics in personal finance, basic accounting principles, and an introduction to financial markets. The program culminates in a stock pitch project, where students must analyze the financials of a company and pitch their approach to investing in that company's stock.