Summer Springboard
Middle School Finance & Investing
ON THE CAMPUS OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
BUILD ESSENTIAL FINANCIAL LITERACY THROUGH HANDS-ON MARKET ANALYSIS, TEAMWORK AND CONFIDENT PUBLIC SPEAKING.
THIS IS A ONE-WEEK PROGRAM WHERE YOU’LL FOCUS ON ONE COURSE FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION.
Middle School Finance & Investing
- Navigate stock market basics and observe how share prices change day-to-day.
- Decode real, simplified company financial reports, and uncover how everyday brands turn a profit.
- Develop critical thinking and decision-making skills by evaluating real-world businesses with teammates.
- Build public speaking confidence by presenting a team stock pitch to a panel of guest judges.
- Experience real-world investing through high-energy simulations, interactive challenges, and gamified market trading.
- Collaborate in small teams with step-by-step faculty coaching to design a mock investment portfolio.
Summer Springboard
Middle School Business & Entrepreneurship
About This Course
In this action-packed course, middle school students step beyond traditional textbooks to gain essential real-world financial literacy through active, hands-on discovery in New York City. By diving straight into interactive market simulations, decoding simplified financial reports of their favorite brands, and investigating real-world business strategies, young investors discover firsthand how the stock market actually works and what drives company success. Beyond core financial smarts, this immersive experience empowers students to sharpen their critical thinking, boost public speaking confidence, and master peer collaboration as they build and pitch a custom mock portfolio to guest judges. Ultimately, students walk away with practical tools for analyzing money and markets, real-world teamwork skills, and an exciting preview into the world of finance and investing.
TOPICS YOU'LL EXPLORE
Hands-on Learning
Students gain real-world financial skills by stepping onto live market floors, embarking on a Wall Street history quest, and analyzing live ticker data. Through interactive simulations, team trading challenges, and hands-on portfolio building, middle schoolers learn active decision-making and business strategy by directly experiencing how markets work.
By analyzing real companies, stepping into the shoes of stock analysts, and presenting live pitches to guest judges, students get an exciting, practical preview of high-demand careers in finance, business, and entrepreneurship. This immersive exposure helps young learners connect classroom concepts to real-world professions while discovering their own interests and talents in the global economy.
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“It was great here. Almost everything was perfect and I genuinely feel that I gained something from this. I finally know what I want to do in life and want to work hard for it. “
– Malcolm C. | SSB Alumni Student
Summer Springboard
Middle School Finance & Investing
Meet Your Instructor
Instructor Information Coming Soon!
Courses are taught by accomplished and passionate faculty recruited from many area colleges, universities and professional forums. Each faculty member is selected for their subject area expertise and proven ability to both challenge and captivate students.
Summer Springboard
Middle School Finance & Investing
Dates & Tuition
| 2027 Dates |
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| Session 1: June 27 – July 2, 2027 |
| Session 2: July 4 – July 9, 2027 |
| Session 3: July 11 – July 16, 2027 |
| Session 4: July 18 – July 23, 2027 |
Click here to enroll in this course using our online enrollment form.
| Tuition |
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| Residential Tuition: $3,198* |
| Commuter Tuition: $1,798* |
*Apply by November 30 to lock in the lowest prices of the year. Tuition increases on December 1.
Tuition Protection Plan: Allows for cancellation for any reason up until the day of the program.
| Location |
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| City: New York City |
| State: New York |
| Campus: NYU |
Summer Springboard programs are not run by our campus partners (with the exception of Cal Poly, UW Foster and NYSID which are run in partnership with SSB). Universities and their affiliated departments and partners do not control and are not responsible or liable in any manner for any part of the Summer Springboard program.