Junior Chase Summers was chosen as one of the seven students in the county to attend the apprenticeship for People’s Bank.

Summers has always had an interest in finance and was very passionate about being able to work underneath of the bank.

Summers learned a lot through the group projects in the apprenticeship.

“We got into groups to come up with a product that the banks could sell,” said Summers. “It helped me to learn about working with a group of people I didn’t know and to form a product that will actually be successful.”

Summers created an app called the Budget Buddy with his group where financial goals could be tracked.

Finance teacher Kellin Mccullough thinks that the process was very beneficial for Summers’s financial future.

“He signed up through his finance class… since he is very interested in finance,” said Mccullough. “It allowed him to see new aspects of banking that will help him in the future.”

Summers really enjoyed being able to see all of their hard work come together.

“It was very rewarding to see the end result,” said Summers. “Seeing everything come together

and presenting in
front of the executives of the bank was a really rewarding experience.”

It is no question that the apprenticeship helped Summers to prepare for his future in finance, which is the whole reason that he chose to go.

“[The apprenticeship] was a great experience to further my finance experience,” said Summers. “It is what I want to major in in college, so it really helped me to prepare for that.”

Summers is excited to see what the future holds for his passion for finance and hopes to have more opportunities like this in his senior year.