Eleven students from Ron Daniel's three Business and Personal Finance classes at Summerville High School accepted the first-ever National Financial Literacy Challenge promulgated by the newly-formed President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy in coordination with the U.S. Treasury.

Whether heading to college or straight into the workforce, today's high school graduates will face a robust marketplace of financial problems and the products and services to help deal with them. To better navigate our nation's financial systems, President Bush urges students to learn more about budgeting and saving, using credit wisely, stock market investing, avoiding fraud, and a number of other financial topics and consumer issues.

The challenge consisted of a voluntary, 35-question standardized online exam taken by more than 46,000 high school students in rural areas, suburbs, and cities across the country and in Department of Defense schools around the world.

Mr. Daniel is pleased to announce the following students have earned certificates of recognition from the U.S. Department of the Treasury:

Congratulations to these who accepted the National Financial Literacy Challenge! Abe Clark, Jonelle Hamrick, David Hester, Kidada Irick, Onur Jerdan, Jonathan LePage, Ryan Link, Serena Miller, Amy Prine, Camille Toliver, Michael Washington