Trent Staggs

Staggs' innovative teaching idea, “Money Life Skills – Get Real,” focuses on providing high school students a curriculum centered on financial literacy. The Voya grant will provide teachers with the materials needed to create a real life simulation of a modern economy within a classroom setting. Staggs believes that by embracing this training, as well as a “Life Happens” mantra, students will be encouraged to open their eyes to the reality of financial planning and money management, a reality that is relevant both in their adolescent years and throughout their lifetime.