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Five High School Students Awarded MFA Scholarships
The Museum of American Finance is proud to announce that five outstanding students have received the Museum Finance Academy ( MFA ) merit scholarships for the Fall 2023 semester . The MFA is a free five session personal finance certificate course for 11th and 12th graders with the goal of teaching students to aspire to financial independence through developing an appreciation for savings , establishing financial goals and learning to avoid scams .
Krish Bhandari , a 16-year-old junior at Stuyvesant High School in New York , received the top scholarship award of
$ 1,000 . He enjoys solving math competition problems , playing chess and lifting weights . His dream is to become an entrepreneur .
The other four top achievers in the MFA program received scholarships of $ 500 each . They include James Henry Cornell , a 17-year-old senior at the Hudson School in New Jersey , who is drawn to finance as a future career because he enjoys the quantitative and logical aspects of working with numbers and real-world currency ; Amin Ibrahim , a 16-year-old junior at James Madison High School in Brooklyn , who enjoys engineering and
computer programming ; Luna Vilarino , a 16-year-old junior at Beacon High School in Manhattan , who co-founded a banned book club and spends much of her time volunteering ; and Yuting Zou , a 16-yearold junior at James Madison High School in Brooklyn , who hopes to attend Baruch College in the future and plans to major in business or finance .
The Museum is extremely proud of all the students who successfully completed the Fall 2023 MFA and earned their certificates in personal finance . Many thanks to Con Edison for their continued sponsorship of the fall semester of this program .
The Museum is proud to announce that ( left to right , top to bottom ) Krish Bhandari , James Henry Cornell , Amin Ibrahim , Luna Vilarino and Yuting Zou have earned merit scholarships as top achievers in the Fall 2023 semester of the Museum Finance Academy .
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