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Dear Susan,
We are continually building upon a perpetual gratitude list, thankful for the lasting and immeasurable influence of leaders in economic and personal finance education like Bonnie Meszaros, who recently stepped down from her full-time associate director role but who remains steadfastly involved in our elementary educational programming. And we are grateful for two uniquely capable instructional designers who joined our team this summer, Sarah Johnson and Amy Krzyzanowski. Both are MAEEE alumna who come straight from the Delaware classroom, bringing with them fresh ideas and energy that will expand and better guide the work that we do.
Recently packing up and moving to the new UD Star Campus FinTech Innovation Hub necessitated a welcomed walk down memory lane-- sifting through troves of impressive archives that detailed our center’s rich 52-year history, affording us the chance to relive many accomplishments while preserving what is most important for posterity. Happy to now be settled in the new space, we join university departments there who are focused on analytics, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. What we learn from our new neighbors will help inform the content and methods we share with K-12 classroom teachers and their students, recognizing this as a unique opportunity to foster innovation through our collaboration.
As the days grow shorter and daylight becomes scarcer, autumn encourages us to build fires that will kindle the work ahead. Thankful for our partners who help us keep that light alive, we are embracing the exciting change that is in the air—change that will ensure that teachers will be offered the tools needed to make economic, personal finance, and entrepreneurship education meaningful to their students.
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