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Curfews. Screen time. Music taste. Parents and teens don’t always see eye to eye, but one thing they do agree on: the importance of financial knowledge.

According to a Greenlight survey, 93% of teens believe they need financial knowledge to achieve their life goals — and 97% of parents agree. So, why do teens average below-passing grades on the National Financial Literacy Test?

The truth: Personal finance courses are still a work in progress, and other learning materials can be too dry or complex for even the most money-savvy adults.

This got the team at Greenlight’s gears turning. They asked, “Can we flip the script on financial education and make it… fun?” Then, they got to work and built the answer: Greenlight’s financial literacy game for kids and teens.

Meet Greenlight Level Up™ — the game-changing money game

Greenlight Level Up is the financial literacy game for kids and teens that unlocks money confidence for life. Built by academic and game design experts, Level Up goes beyond national standards for K-12 personal financial education.

Learnings come to life as players put their money skills to work in real life with their Greenlight app and debit card. Kids and teens can use what they’ve learned today — and build smart money habits for life.

Lock in learning with Greenlight’s financial literacy game

Level Up’s curriculum teaches financial literacy to kids and teens using a results-driven approach. Greenlight’s team identified the outcomes that kids and teens need to succeed. Think: money knowledge, skills, and confidence (a.k.a. the secret sauce to achieving life goals). Then, they designed a curriculum that takes players’ money skills to the next level.

Each lesson builds on the other using an educational matrix that’s connected back to — you guessed it — the outcomes. Players can follow the recommended path or choose their adventure based on what interests them. And with topics like spending, investing, earning, and saving, Level Up covers relevant skills that kids and teens can use right away.

Inside the Greenlight Level Up game

Level Up players cruise through bite-sized challenges to earn coins and get rewards. Each challenge is packed with multimedia content that blends education and entertainment into story-driven gameplay. Why? Research shows that our brains organize words and images 3 separately — this intentional combo of words, illustrations, and sounds deepens learning.

Level Up puts players’ money knowledge to the test in a way that feels nothing like a test. The questions encourage them to think big with relatable scenarios and real-life money decisions. Greenlight built an inclusive experience aimed at multiple intelligences to make the content enjoyable and effective — for everyone.

“Greenlight’s mission is for all kids to grow up financially healthy, and we believe that Level Up will supercharge that. They’ll learn the essential personal finance skills that they need in the future, and with relatable, gamified content, they’re empowered to put them into practice now.” — Jennifer Seitz, Director of Education at Greenlight

Money skills for today, tomorrow — and for life

At Greenlight, financial literacy for kids and teens is the name of the game. That means finding new ways to empower them with money skills, knowledge, and confidence.

Now, there’s a fun way to take personal financial education beyond K-12 national standards with Greenlight Level Up. Kids and teens get a head start with hands-on learning — and put their skills to work in real life as they learn to navigate the world of money. We’ll be cheering them on every step of the way.

Want in? As a Park Bank client, your family can join Greenlight and play Level Up for free. Sign up today.