Financial Literacy Program for School Districts

Personal Finance Curriculum & Scholarships History

Rapunzl Has Distributed Over $300,000 In Scholarships

We track students simulated portfolios from the first week of January through the last week of April, ranking students’ percentage performance with a leaderboard which updates every 5 minutes.

Students submit Portfolio Defense Essays to justify their simulated investments due by mid-May.

Top-performing students nationally are awarded scholarships through 529 Accounts, and the best student at each school receives fractional shares in a company of their choosing!

Rapunzl offers plug and play project based financial literacy

Industry-Recognized Certifications, Built for Student Success

Our credential program awards students digital certifications in financial literacy, investing fundamentals, and financial mathematics.

These verifiable achievements can be added to LinkedIn profiles, college applications, and resumes — showcasing the real-world skills students develop through Rapunzl’s curriculum.

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Simulated Investing Competition wiht middle and high school Scholarships

Immersive, Hard & Soft Skill Development

Simulating a portfolio helps students develop hard skills such as financial analysis, investment strategy, and risk management by engaging them in real-world financial decision-making.

Gamified simulators also help cultivate soft skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence. As students learn to navigate market fluctuations and make informed decisions under pressure, our program helps build resiliency and confidence.

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Improve Math Proficiency While Learning About Money With Rapunzl

Elevate math skills while building a strong understanding of essential financial life skills.

Digital and print activities help contextualize learning objects with real-world scenarios, tying students’ simulated portfolios to math subjects including:

Probabilities

Statistics

Exponents

Equations

Pre-Algebra

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High School & Financial Literacy Real-Time Data With Scholarships

Real-Time Data Updates

Rapunzl pricing data streams directly from the Nasdaq exchange, ensuring that students can experience market changes as they happen, making financial concepts more tangible and relatable.

This realistic approach inceases students engagement, contexualizes learning, and fosters critical thinking to equip students for the real-world.

Rapunzl's Easy Course Delivery

Rapunzl's personal finance curriculum is designed for flexible delivery, accommodating both synchronous and asynchronous learning.

Our financial literacy courses include detailed teacher pacing guides for an in-person, full-semester course led by an instructor, that can be adapted to fit course and scheduling needs.

These resources can also provide supplementary support to an educator in the classroom, or serve as an extended asynchronous learning opportunity for interested students.

Rapunzl Simulated Investing Competition With Scholarships

A Personal Finance Curriculum Aligned With All State Standards

Rapunzl's curriculum and prebuilt courses cover a wide range of essential life skills, while simultaneously fulfilling your state’s standards of learning.

Get in touch with us to receive a roadmap for Rapunzl's state and national standards alignment, curriculum access, and login credentials for the simulator.

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Let Rapunzl Bring An Investment Club To Your School

Rapunzl's financial literacy curriculum is perfect for establishing an investment club at your school.

Our personal finance curriculum aligns with our real-time investment simulator to help students dive into real-world market conditions in a risk-free, simulated environment.

This allows interested students to dive deeper than core requirements and leverage Rapunzl’s mobile app to extend learning beyond the classroom.

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Easy To Setup Financial Literacy Summer Camp

Since 2020, Rapunzl has partnered with the WNBA's Chicago Sky Cares Foundation to host a financial literacy summer camp that has impacted nearly 500 inner-city students across Chicago.

Each morning, Rapunzl covers a different personal finance topics, and each after students interact with finance professionals to build career exposure.

Over the past 3 years, our students have averaged 93% on a national financial capabilities assessment - 26% higher than the national average - and we now provide schools and districts with a plug-and-play program to replicate this experience.

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What Teachers Are Saying About Rapunzl

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Rapunzl has been a game-changer for my students since I started using it in 2019.

I can provide hands-on experience with real-world learning, bringing economic theories to life and enabling students to see the immediate impact of market changes while learning discipline in a risk-free environment.

Joshua Levine

CTE & Business Teacher

New Utrecht High School

New York City, NY

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Rapunzl was an amazing resource when teaching my personal finance unit.

My learners loved the interactive stock market simulation and still check their portfolios a month after concluding the unit. The activities regarding the basics of investing were incredibly helpful to get students engaged.

Christine Ward

Social Sciences & Civics Teacher

Northern Cass High School

Fargo, ND

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Integrating Rapunzl into our curriculum has sparked renewed interest in math among my students and provide a risk-free way to teach about investing.

It's been really helpful to bridge the gap between theory and practical skills by showing the real-world relevance of math skills.

Benjamin Craig

Mathematics Teacher

Mather High School

Chicago, IL

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Rapunzl Cares About Students’ Data Privacy

Rapunzl complies fully with restrictions set by COPPA and FERPA—we don't store personally identifiable information such as a student’s age, location, gender, or ethnicity.

Under FERPA, parents and eligible students (aged 18 and over) shall be able to access the student’s records upon request to Rapunzl until records are deleted at the end of the school year.

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District Financial Literacy

A district-ready personal finance curriculum built for scale

District leaders need more than engaging lessons. They need a personal finance curriculum that can support consistent implementation across schools, align with graduation expectations, and give teachers the structure they need to succeed. Rapunzl is built to help districts launch high school financial literacy with stronger visibility and less friction.

Because the platform combines standards-aligned curriculum, teacher tools, assessments, and experiential learning, districts can move from pilot planning to broader adoption with a clearer path for instructional consistency and student engagement.