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This summer Miami Palmetto High School incoming senior Vance Schroeder created a
community service project to help students learn financial literacy.
“I’m really interested in personal finance myself,” he says. “I’ve read tons of books about it. I’ve done internships on that too.”
He calls his project Head Start Mission. He has created lectures in financial literacy. He expects to have a total of ten. By mid-June he had already created four that give students insight as to what they can do now to get a head start.
He’s looking to book lectures in a variety of locations including summer camps. He also
hopes to schedule lectures at high schools.
“Schools would be a much more diverse and bigger audience,” he says. “Lots of
students have jobs.”
After the lecture, he expects to have a question and answer period and discussions. He’s
working on providing attendees with some of the books he studied.
“The authors of these books, they have charities themselves,” he says. “If not, I would
look to purchase them. I do have financial partners that could help with that.”
His interest in finance was fostered by older brother, Logan.
“He’d talk about it,” he says. “We still talk about it. He sent me books to read.”
Schroder does invest in the stock market, but as he says, he does it in a “boring and
safe way,” because he doesn’t want to risk the money he does have.
He’s the new president of the Palmetto Finance Club.
“We are going to do a stock market challenge next year,” he says. “People are really looking
forward to it.”
He wants to start out working in investment banking before moving on to invest in real
estate. To gain a head start, he interned at the International Finance Bank in Coral
Gables last summer.
“It was awesome,” he says. “I was the only high school student to do that. It was a
simple job for the first week. Then I got moved to a high department making financial
statement models of various companies to see if the bank wanted to invest in them. It
was a big learning experience.”
At school he’s a member of the National Honor Society and the secretary of Key Club.
“I focus mostly on Volunteering Miami as the chief financial officer,” he says. “I get to
meet all sorts of people and meet our sponsors and fundraisers.”
The bills he pays depend on what the CEO wants for the Volunteer Fair. Most of the
money is spent on promotional materials and printing but sometimes Volunteering
Miami pays for food and the venue.
Volunteering Miami is expanding its operation and has been talking with groups Blue
Missions, and partnerships. Blue Missions is the organization that supplies water and
latrines to remote Dominican Republic villages.
Because of the changes, he was able to go along on a mission trip with Dancers
Dressing Dancers to distribute dance togs to girls who couldn’t afford dance clothes.
“It was great to see,” he says. “It was like Christmas for those kids.”
He loves the changes at Volunteering Miami.
“We have helped four projects,” he says.
Outside of school, Schroeder works at Publix in the bakery.
“It’s always fun to give the kids the cookies,” he says. “I like that.”
He’s started his common application for college. Currently he plans to stay in Florida so
he’s looking at the University of Florida, Florida State University, the University of
Central Florida and if he leaves the state, the University of North Carolina.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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