Will your presents be remembered five years from now?
Make this holiday season meaningful by investing in a child's future. The my529 Gift Program can help make your holiday season easier and potentially offer loved ones decades of benefits thanks to access to education.
Utah Teens Invited to Enter Lights, Camera, Save! Video Contest
Zions Bank is accepting submissions for the Lights, Camera, Save! video contest. To participate in the contest, students ages 13-18 may create a video, no longer than 30 seconds, on using money wisely and submit a link to the video along with a completed entry form to Zions Bank by November 30, 2025. The contest is open to filmmakers of all experience levels. Zions is awarding $500 to the Utah winner, with the chance to compete nationally for up to $10,000.
Contact Zions Bank Public Relations Officer Kallee Feuz at kallee.feuz@zionsbank.com for an official entry form.
Teaching Money with Meaning Webinar
Register for the General Financial Literacy Webinar featuring Colin Ryan on October 22, 2025, from 3:00-4:00 PM MDT.
Register for this webinar HERE!
Fall GFL Methods Course
The Fall 2025 course registration is now open and will be held September 10th - October 13th. This course will run through USBE’s Canvas. There will be 1 module completed each week for the 4-week course. Educators may complete the work on each module on their own time throughout those weeks. Course registration is available now through September 10th, 2025, in MIDAS.
Add the Success Sequence instruction to your GFL course
Board Rule Update for General Financial Literacy R277-704 approved the Success Sequence being added to the Financial Literacy Curriculum. Although not officially in the General Financial Literacy Strands and Standards currently, it will be in the 2027 revision. Please start to incorporate this into your financial literacy courses this year.
This Success Sequence resource has been prepared to focus on the financial impact of the Success Sequence in students' lives.
2025 Utah Women in the Money Conference.
Register today for the 7th Annual Women in the Money Financial Empowerment Conference, September 11 & 12, 2025, in Salt Lake City and Online.
- Invest in yourself
- Connect with others
- Build a stronger future
Fall Utah Treasurer’s Investment Challenge
The Fall Investment Challenge will take place from September 7, 2025, to November 14, 2025. The Utah Treasurer's Investment Challenge is a statewide investment competition for Utah students in grades 4-12, a simulation of Wall Street trading that provides a framework for teaching Utah students about the U.S. economy and financial markets.
Be the Chief Financial Officer of Your Life
Take this online introductory series of 6 workshops where you will learn the basics of personal finance, including:
- Creating a budget
- Using credit cards
- Understanding interest rates
- Paying taxes
- An introduction to careers in finance
Book Your Summer
Register for the summer reading program at your local library. Then enter for a chance at one of six regional $2,000 my529 scholarships. One entry per reader, age 18 and under (born on or after May 1, 2007). Book Your Summer runs May 1, 2025, through July 31.
2025 $tart $mart Teacher Summit for Financial Literacy Utah Educators
Join us on June 17, 2025 at Thanksgiving Point for a day filled with workshops, networking, and resources to enhance your financial literacy curriculum. This in-person event is designed specifically for Utah educators looking to bring innovative ideas to teach financial literacy in their classrooms. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and gain valuable insights. Register now to secure your spot!
K-6 Financial Literacy Challenge
K-6 Students have the opportunity to recieve a $50 youth savings account from American First when they complete eight activities and two reflection questions from the Financial Literacy Challenge.
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Plant your college savings this spring
The my529 College Savings Estimator is a free and easy tool for customizing your savings scenario to predict and compare costs among various higher education options.
3 Experienced-Based Gift Ideas
Give the gift of education with my529. Marketing Director Bryn Ramjoue says my529, Utah's official educational savings plan, offers a unique way to gift a child's future. Instead of clothes that wear our and toys that break, my529 contributes to a child's college fund, so it grows and lasts a lifetime. Anyone can gift a my529 contribution - parents, grandparents or even friends. It's as easy as visiting my529.org to get started.
Personalized portals offer unique gifting experience
The gifting season is upon us and the <a href="https://my529.org/gifting-profiles/" target="_blank">my529 Gift Program</a> lets account owners send friends and family a unique link and gift code that makes it easy for them to contribute funds to a beneficiary’s account. The beneficiary’s gifting profile can even be customized with a photo and thoughtful message; there are endless ways to be creative with the gifting profile.
2024 Utah Women in the Money Conference
The Utah Women in the Money Conference empowers women to achieve financial security by providing access to crucial financial information, valuable resources, and new mentors and friends.
Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame
The Utah Jump$tart Coalition, Utah Treasurer Marlo M. Oaks, and the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) honored the first-ever Utah Financial Education Hall of Fame inductees at a banquet on June 10, 2024. The Hall of Fame formally recognized Utah’s outstanding personal finance teachers, as well as the administrators who support them in their important work.
Utah Recieves an A Grade on State Efforts to Improve Financial Literacy
Using national data, Center for Financial Literacy graded all states on their efforts to produce financially literate high school graduates. This report card gave Utah an A grade in efforts to provide high schools with personal finance education.