Seniors are Saving for the Future with AECU
Jayla, Class of 2018, tells us about the recent field trip to American Eagle Credit Union and what she learned about banking. On March 21, 2018, a majority of Lift for Life Academy seniors went on a field trip to American Eagle Credit Union to create savings accounts. In order to create a savings account, you had to pay an initial $5 deposit. Each student received $5 from the American Eagle Credit Union, which was very helpful. At AECU Tracy and Cayla, two of the staff members, gave everyone a tour around the Credit Union. We saw all the different departments that were included in the American Eagle Credit Union, such as: social media department, accounting department, human resources department (HR), etc. Every student had the experience of going inside all of the departments to get a vision and feeling of how it would feel to work in a workplace like the AECU. One young lady, showed us a brief PowerPoint of how the Social Media departm...