Kent Eberspacher

The innovative project submitted by Eberspacher, "The Final Step - Understanding the Federal Reserve," is designed to help more than 60 students at Star Valley High School experience and understand banking at the federal level. Students in his finance class will get a chance to interact with a bank president, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Directors/Kansas City branch, and actually visit the Federal Reserve Bank in Salt Lake City. By doing so, students will learn about the Federal Reserve and the United States economy and develop analytic and teamwork skills while working with new technology to create presentations. They will utilize business magazines and newspapers to find deeper meaning in national economic data and understand the importance for citizens to engage themselves in their democracy. According to Eberspacher, teaching the unit on the Federal Reserve System is one of his most difficult challenges. By bringing subject-matter experts to the students and taking students to the Federal Reserve Bank, he hopes to increase the level of understanding about the complex system. Eberspacher resides in Afton.