Judy Austin of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship of the University of Delaware demonstrates how volunteers can teach this year's lesson on saving for Delaware's 2026 Teach Children to Save Day.
For nearly three decades, Delaware bankers have made a lasting difference in the lives of young students by teaching the importance of saving and planning for a secure financial future. The 28th Annual Teach Children to Save Day in Delaware will take place during the week of April 27, with banker volunteer registration opening in January.
This year’s program once again features an original, student-friendly comic book starring the Great Investo, Penny, and Saveroo the Savings Genie. Developed in partnership with the University of Delaware, the comic highlights five essential tools to saving and reinforces key concepts through engaging games and puzzles that students enjoy and educators consistently praise.
Thank you to our sponsors who made this year's comic book possible: Barclays; Wells Fargo; WSFS; TD Bank; Artisans' Bank; Bank of America; Fulton Bank; M&T Bank; Sallie Mae; Smarty Pig; Comenity Bank; County Bank; First Citizens Community Bank; Shore United; and Taylor Bank.
The Great Investo and his friends Penny and Saveroo are back for a new adventure in savings. This time they want a new video game system. Saveroo, the mystical savings genie introduces them to the Magic Savings Tool Kit as the best way to save towards their goals. What are those magic tools? Click on the picture to read their latest adventure and find out!
The Great Investo and Penny meet a new friend, The Mystical Saveroo the Savings Genie. Pennny wants to save for a new bicycle. Investo wants a new bike, too, but wants to use magic to find a better, different bank than Penny's. He enlists the mystical help of Saveroo. Will he find a better way to save than the local bank? Click on the picture to read their latest adventure and find out!
The World's Worst Money Magician and his assistant are back with this adventure on the magic of compounding! Travel with them to Compounding Castle and learn what happens when you work for the Compounding Giant, and how he can work for you! Click on the picture to find out!
Read the 2023 comic adventure of the World's Worst Money Magician and his savvy assistant as they teach about scarcity (having more wants than money), and how you can create your own Anti-Scarcity Machine through saving! It's 20 pages of comics, fun, and puzzles now available for download and online enjoyment! Click on the picture!
First held in Delaware in 1998, Teach Children to Save Day (TCTSD) is part of a nationwide financial literacy effort that works to educate elementary school students throughout Delaware, while targeting those from low- to moderate-income communities, on the importance of saving as the basis for future financial security. The primary goal is to foster sound financial practices in the students, with a secondary goal of informing and influencing the older generations on the benefits of saving. Through the program, children are encouraged from a young age to develop the habits that will help ensure their future economic independence. Take-home materials are also provided for students to share with their parents.
Teach Children to Save Day is held in April, preceded by a special kick-off event featuring the Governor. The Delaware Financial Education Alliance (DFEA) works with the University of Delaware's Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) to administer this program in the First State. The age-appropriate curricula were developed by the CEEE to meet State economic competency standards. The DFEA helps to raise the funding for the program, and assists in the coordination and training of the volunteer faculty comprised of bankers. Through financial education grants, the DFEA also develops and distributes the materials used on TCTSD, including the bilingual take-home financial education information piece for the children to share with their parents and other adults. The DBA/FEA also pays for the books used in each classroom, which are then donated to the school following the event. The CEEE pairs the volunteer bank employees with the classroom teachers and students.
On the day of the event, volunteer bankers, organized by the DFEA and trained by the CEEE, visit schools throughout Delaware. The volunteers teach students the importance of saving, the basics of financial education, and the benefits of prudent money management. The DBA/DFEA's Teach Children to Save Day program has consistently been recognized as one of the best in the nation by the American Bankers Association.
