North Carolina and Virginia High School Students Compete in the Euro Challenge
American High School Teams from 15 States Compete in the 2011 Euro Challenge
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – American high school students taking part in the 2011 Euro Challenge competition are poised to solve Europe‘s economic problems. Now in its sixth year, the Euro Challenge is an academic contest that provides a unique and exciting educational opportunity for thousands of students from across the United States to learn about the European Union – the largest economic partner of the US – and the economies that share its single currency, the euro. On April 5, four North Carolina and Virginia schools (Collegiate School-VA, Durham School of the Arts-NC, East Chapel Hill High School-NC, and Hoggard High School-NC) will gather at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for European Studies to showcase their knowledge of everything from ballooning government deficits to rising unemployment, and make policy recommendations to solve these and other challenges confronting countries.
The Euro Challenge fosters a better understanding of the European economy and transatlantic economic relations, and it supports local learning objectives in economics and finance. The competition continues to expand nationally. This year, 79 high school teams from 15 states (Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Wisconsin) will compete in the contest. Regional rounds kick off on March 22 and culminate in the finals at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York City on April 27.
“We welcome the growing number of states and schools participating in this year’s Euro Challenge competition,” said Ambassador Joao Vale de Almeida, Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States. “We started out with ten schools from two states in the program in 2006 and in just six years we have grown to 79 schools from 15 states. The Euro Challenge has reached thousands of American high-school students, teaching them valuable lessons about the European Union and why strong transatlantic relations are so crucial. The competition brings the EU to life, better than any text book or website, and it fosters a life-long interest in economics and the EU-US partnership.”
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