Saturday Leadership Academy Continues to Grow – Land Drones and Financial Literacy

This past Saturday, the members of the 100 Black Men of Austin continued it’s Saturday Leadership Academy(SLA) Texas Empowerment Academy. SLA, which is bi-weekly, aims to teach young men and women about life skills, financial responsibility and more. During this session, the group began working on building cars as a part of an on-going initiative with The Drone Apprenticeship Program. More info about the program will be available later.

We also continued our workshops for our Hands on Banking and Junior Investment initiative, which is done yearly in partnership with the 100 Black Men of America, SIFMA and Wells Fargo . The students are learning the basic knowledge of how money, banking and financing works, while also participating in The Stock Market Game, competing with other youth around the country.

During the next session we will continue helping the group build their car models and get them ready for race competition.