Rising seniors base out of Flagstaff high schools spent some time developing their financial literacy skills last week as part of a boot camp hosted by Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke College of Business.
Last Thursday morning, about 25 students gathered for the camp’s first day. The warmup activity started with a series of questions.
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