{"id":53962,"date":"2016-12-08T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53962"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T02:03:49","slug":"financial-literacy-peer-educators-placed-second-in-national-knowledge-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/08\/financial-literacy-peer-educators-placed-second-in-national-knowledge-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial literacy peer educators placed second in national knowledge bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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From left, Allysen Manding, Arlene Colis, Paula Mao-Tamasese and team captain Cautchy Bailly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team of undergraduate students from the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Mānoa Financial Literacy Program<\/a> placed second at the national 2016 Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education Financial Counseling Knowledge Bowl<\/a> held recently in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

AFCPE<\/abbr>, is a nonprofit, professional organization dedicated to educating, training and certifying financial counselors and educators. Its annual Financial Counseling Knowledge Bowl is held to promote the field of financial counseling and education by empowering people to achieve lasting financial well-being.<\/p>\n

The 糖心视频<\/abbr> Mānoa team members were Arlene Colis<\/strong>, Allysen Manding<\/strong>, Paula Mao-Tamasese<\/strong> and team captain Cautchy Bailly<\/strong>. They competed against other teams in a gameshow-style competition by answering questions similar to those on the Association for Financial Counseling exam.<\/p>\n

“To have actually placed second\u00a0was overwhelming for all of us,” said Mao-Tamasese. “I\u00a0am proud to be one of the students chosen to represent our university’s Financial Literacy Program in\u00a0nationwide competition.”<\/p>\n

Other teams in the final round of competition at the Financial Counseling Knowledge Bowl represented Utah Valley University, University of Utah, Kansas State University and Texas Tech.<\/p>\n

For more, read the 糖心视频 Mānoa news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The knowledge bowl is held to promote the field of financial counseling and education by empowering people to achieve lasting financial well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[660,9],"class_list":["post-53962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t