Business competitions for young people can be a good way to learn about economics and finance.In Northern California, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship recently held a business plan competition. Seventeen-year-old Huong Cheng won first place and now goes on to the national level.

 

开展年轻人之间的商业竞赛是他们学习经济和金融的好途径。最近在加利福尼亚州的北部，美国国家创业指导基金会举办了一次商业计划比赛。17岁的Huong Cheng在这次比赛中拔得头筹，目前，现在已进入国家级比赛环节 。 

Her idea is for a business where high school students volunteer to do small tasks for old people. The families of the retirees would pay her company. Then the company would share the profits with school clubs that the students belong to.

她的创意是成立一家公司，高中生志愿者在这家公司里志愿帮助老人做一些小事。拥有退休人员的家庭需要向她的公司支付一定的费用。然后这家公司将和学生所属的社团共同分享获得的利润。

Another competition, the National Economics Challenge, reached the finals last month in New York City. Sixteen students competed from four high schools in Alabama, California, Hawaii and Indiana.

另一项竞赛，国家经济挑战杯，本月末也将在纽约进行最后的决赛。16名来自阿拉巴马州，加利福尼亚州，夏威夷群岛和印第安纳州的四所高中的学生参加了这次比赛。

They raced to answer questions on different subjects -- from personal finance to economic theory to current events. Teachers said the current problems in the economy offered a lot of examples to use in the classroom.

比赛时选手需要回答各种各样不同的问题，其内容包括从个人理财观点到经济理论再到当前的时事政治。老师们说当前经济领域上的问题为课堂提供了大量的事实案例。

The nonprofit National Council on Economic Education has held the challenge for eight years with the Goldman Sachs Foundation. The winners and their teachers each received three thousand dollars in United States Savings Bonds.

非盈利经济教育理事会和高盛基金会一起举办挑战杯已经有8年了。获胜者及其指导教师每人将会得到来自美国储蓄公债提供的三千美元奖金。