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Staff Spotlight – PC, Alex Baker

June 16, 2017 At FTE our Program Coordinators (PC)s are an essential part to ensuring our student summer programs are…

How Do We Ensure the Ideas of a Free Society Are Passed On?

May 31, 2017 Young people do not look with awe or a sense of wonder at an iPhone, a computer,…

Summer Planning for the College Bound

This is my excerpt. It’s about the summer.

Recent Alumni Profile – Jillian Huels

March 24, 2017 This time last year Jillian Huels was reluctant to apply for FTE’s Economics for Leaders program. By…

Where We are Wednesday – College of William and Mary

March 22, 2017 It’s a William an Mary Wednesday! We still have spaces available for both students AND teachers on…

Alumni Spotlight – Ruby Au – Nashville 2011

March 1, 2017 Ruby Au, has traveled near and far. Since participating in the Economics for Leaders program at Vanderbilt in…

Alumni Spotlight – Madeleine Overturf – Chicago ’09

January 24, 2017 Madeleine Overturf is quite literally in the spotlight these days as a reporter at WBOC-TV in Sussex…

Where We are Wednesday – UC Berkeley

January 11, 2017 Where We are Wednesday… The University of California, Berkeley! Home of the blue and gold Oski bears…

Recent Alumni Profile – Angela Wei

December 28, 2016 Angela Wei attended Economics for Leaders last year at Rice University in Houston, TX. About her experience…

From the Gorges of Ithaca to the Skyscrapers of Seattle…

December 12, 2016 We are proud to announce our 2017 summer sites and dates! This year we are all over…

The Streamin’ Blues

What’s not to like about streaming? The music you want, wherever and whenever you want. Sounds good! But does your favorite artist think so?

Hot Topic: In a Pickle

“You’re kidding me?!” That’s what the Alaska food bank director said when Feeding America sent her a semi full of 5 gallon buckets of pickles!
Learn how the economic way of thinking helped a charity sell its way out of a pickle.