{"id":289137,"date":"2026-09-18T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289137\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:24:12","slug":"free-financial-literacy-summit-for-philly-teens-features-wharton-faculty-and-goldman-sachs-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289137\/","title":{"rendered":"Free financial literacy summit for Philly teens features Wharton faculty and Goldman Sachs pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia-area high school students can get free, practical financial literacy lessons on college costs, credit, investing, first paychecks and starting a business at a summit later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Teen Financial Empowerment Summit will take place Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Philadelphia Airport, Stadium Area.<\/p>\n<p>Wharton faculty and Goldman Sachs professionals will lead short, hands-on sessions on paying for college, using credit wisely, investing, first paychecks and starting a business.<\/p>\n<p>The day will end with the F\u00b3 Financial Ideathon, where students will work in teams to tackle a real financial challenge and present their ideas to a panel. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams.<\/p>\n<p>FIND MORE EVENTS HAPPENING NEAR YOUDiscover festivals, markets, family-friendly activities and other things to do throughout Philadelphia, South Jersey and the surrounding suburbs.Explore more events on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PhillyVoice.com\/Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured speakers include David Musto, PhD, of the Wharton School\u2019s Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance; Sofia Bonito and Greg Bankowski of Goldman Sachs; and Pitou Devgon, MD, MBA, of Wharton\u2019s Health Care Management program.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free for Philadelphia-area high school students and their families. Lunch and complimentary parking validation are included, and check-in begins at 9:45 a.m. Space is limited, so advance registration is recommended.<\/p>\n<p><a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/luma.com\/nz5ouyop\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teen Financial Empowerment Summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday, Sept. 26<br \/>Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.<br \/>Check-in: 9:45 a.m.<br \/>Location: Holiday Inn Philadelphia Airport, Stadium Area<br \/>Address: 2033 Penrose Ave., Philadelphia 19145<br \/>Admission: Free<br \/>Audience: Philadelphia-area high school students and families<br \/>Sessions: Paying for college, credit, investing, first paychecks and starting a business<br \/>Includes: Lunch, complimentary parking validation and Ideathon prizes<br \/>Registration: Advance registration recommended; space is limited<\/p>\n<p>Find more upcoming events <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/events\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have an event coming up? Let the PhillyVoice Events team know about it by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/free-financial-literacy-summit-philadelphia-teens-college-credit-investing-2026\/mailto:events@phillyvoice.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">events@phillyvoice.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-area high school students can get free, practical financial literacy lessons on college costs, credit, investing, first paychecks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120104,120105,2265,120100,120102,120101,120106,8128,69,71,70,3315,120103,31552],"class_list":["post-289137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-college-financial-literacy-teens","tag-credit-education-for-teens","tag-finance","tag-financial-literacy-for-teens-philadelphia","tag-financial-literacy-high-school-students-philadelphia","tag-free-financial-literacy-summit-philadelphia","tag-investi","tag-investing","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-students","tag-teen-financial-literacy-event-philadelphia","tag-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}