YOUNG FUTURES SCHOLARS · AGES 14–18
Learn how money moves, how technology works, and how your ideas can shape what comes next.
Meet the proposed Young Futures Scholars Academy: financial literacy, markets, AI, data, entrepreneurship, and career readiness in one connected learning journey.
In development · Applications are not yet open
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ONE ACADEMY. MANY POSSIBILITIES.
The world of finance is bigger than a trading screen. It is mathematics, technology, judgment, creativity, and people.
Grady Futures Foundation is being developed to prepare young people for that world through accessible education and supervised, simulated experiences. The academy will begin with a shared core before students explore specialty pathways.
Our vision is a generation equipped for college, meaningful work, and entrepreneurship—with the confidence to make thoughtful financial decisions.
Money, economics, markets, risk, and technology.
Connect your interests to practical skills and projects.
Research, simulate, create, and explain your decisions.
Complete a capstone and work toward program credentials.
CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE
Explore the proposed curriculum and the projects students will create. Pathways will open in phases as instruction and partnerships are ready.
Build confidence with everyday financial decisions.
Explore this pathway +Learn: Budgeting, banking, credit, interest, taxes, insurance, compound growth, investing basics, retirement, fraud prevention, and identity protection.
Create: A fictional five-year financial plan with a budget, emergency fund, and savings goals.
Planned credential: Youth Financial Literacy Certificate.
Study market behavior with a disciplined, simulated process.
Explore this pathway +Learn: Market structure, auction theory, market and volume profiles, trade location, order flow, and risk management.
Create: A trading playbook, risk plan, and simulation journal across the eight-week flagship curriculum.
Planned credential: Futures Market Microstructure & Professional Execution — Youth Edition.
View the eight-week outlineUnderstand intelligent tools—and how to question them.
Explore this pathway +Learn: AI foundations, language models, agents, prompting, responsible AI, data privacy, bias, hallucinations, and human oversight.
Create: A Stanley Mini-Agent concept that summarizes simulated market data without executing trades.
Planned credential: Youth AI & FinTech Foundations Certificate.
Ask better questions. Find evidence in the numbers.
Explore this pathway +Learn: Probability, expected value, statistics, correlation, volatility, spreadsheets, visualization, and backtesting concepts. Introductory Python is planned for later expansion.
Create: A research notebook and data visualization using a sample market dataset.
Planned credential: Youth Quantitative Markets Certificate.
Turn a real problem into a thoughtful solution.
Explore this pathway +Learn: Customer discovery, business models, revenue, expenses, cash flow, branding, accounting basics, prototyping, and pitching.
Create: A team prototype, simple financial model, and pitch for the Future of Finance Youth Innovation Challenge. Forming a company is not required.
Planned credential: Future Entrepreneur Certificate.
Discover where your strengths could take you.
Explore this pathway +Learn: Finance and technology careers, college majors, scholarship research, financial-aid literacy, resumes, interviews, networking, and professional communication.
Create: A personal career exploration portfolio with a resume and education plan.
Planned credential: Future of Finance Career Certificate.
THE FLAGSHIP LEARNING LAB
The proposed Futures & Derivatives pathway develops sound reasoning through supervised market simulation. Before Week 1, students complete financial-literacy, risk, platform, and Stanley Youth orientation.
Understand trends, balance, support and resistance, and the language of price. Practice describing a market before forming an opinion.
Explore how buyers and sellers discover value. Explain acceptance, rejection, and the difference between price and value.
Study time-price opportunity charts, value areas, and auction context. Build a structured observation journal.
Compare volume distribution with price behavior. Recognize unclear conditions and practice choosing when to stand aside.
Connect a weekly plan to a daily plan and a simulated execution plan. Define a hypothesis, invalidation, and risk before acting.
Compare multiple timeframes and study footprint charts, delta, and order flow in instructor-selected examples.
Explore volume-weighted average price, volatility context, and order flow. Introduce maximum adverse and favorable excursion as tools for reviewing simulated decisions.
Complete a risk plan and trading playbook, present a simulated capstone, and demonstrate understanding in a final assessment.
MEET STANLEY YOUTH
Stanley Youth is the planned AI learning assistant for the academy, supporting explanations, quizzes, project feedback, and reflection across all six pathways.
It will be designed around educational questions, supervised learning, and human support. Students will be taught to verify AI responses and protect private information.
How youth learning is designed“How do I know if my simulated trade plan is ready?”
Start with your reasoning. What evidence supports your idea? What would invalidate it? How will you keep the simulated risk within your plan?
Learning support is planned. This example is not a live AI chat or a trade signal.
FOR PARENTS & GUARDIANS
The proposed program serves students ages 14–18. Before enrollment opens, the academy plans to establish age verification, consent, safeguarding, and clear privacy practices.
Ages 14–17 will require parent or guardian authorization under the proposed program policy. Students age 18 will follow the adult-student process. Under-14 and 19+ applicants will not be eligible for this academy.
Specialist verification services are planned. This website does not currently verify identities or collect student IDs.
Families will be able to review program participation, technology and AI use, privacy, simulation, and communication terms before agreeing. Media permission is planned as a separate, optional choice.
Consent and guardian verification are not yet active.
A future parent portal is planned to show attendance, assignments, assessment results, and readiness scores. Instructor support and safeguarding procedures will be established before student access.
Student, parent, and instructor portals are planned for a later phase.
No real-money trading, brokerage-account opening, deposits, copy trading, or automated live execution is part of the proposed youth program. Stanley Youth is intended for education, not personalized buy-or-sell recommendations.
PROGRESS THAT MEANS SOMETHING
The proposed Futures Readiness Score focuses on thoughtful decisions and demonstrated understanding. Simulated profit is not the primary measure of achievement.
Future impact reports will track enrollment, completion, assessment growth, risk competency, career plans, and student projects. No student outcome results are available yet.
Students will work toward core badges, specialty certificates, and a Young Futures Scholar completion credential. These are proposed program credentials, not degrees or professional licenses. Public credential verification is planned for a later release; no credentials are being issued through this site.
Proposed assessment model · 100 points total
BUILD WHAT COMES NEXT
We welcome early conversations with schools, educators, industry professionals, and organizations interested in helping shape this proposed academy.
Explore future after-school, summer, Saturday, virtual, and workshop formats. Help connect relevant learning to your students’ needs.
Discuss a school partnershipShare expertise in finance, data, AI, entrepreneurship, or careers. Mentor participation will depend on screening and youth-safeguarding procedures.
Discuss mentoringExplore support for instruction, technology access, classrooms, and future cohorts. Sponsorship budgets and funding arrangements are still being developed.
Discuss supporting the programFUTURE OF FINANCE
A planned showcase for student ideas in financial literacy, fintech, AI, and data. Teams will research a problem, build a prototype, and present their thinking.
EXPANDING ACCESS
College and technology scholarships are longer-term goals, subject to funding and published eligibility and selection criteria. Awards and sponsor levels have not been finalized.
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
Grady Futures Foundation is still being planned and formed. The curriculum on this site describes proposed programs, not currently available enrollment.
501(c)(3) approval has not been confirmed. We are not accepting donations through this site or representing contributions as tax-deductible.
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Governance, safeguarding, curriculum, verification planning, and school and funding conversations.
Financial literacy and supervised futures simulation, with verified enrollment and family consent.
AI, data, entrepreneurship, career readiness, credentials, scholarships, and the innovation challenge.
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A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS
Applications are not open yet. No cohort dates, admission decisions, or enrollment places are currently offered. Families can sign up for program updates to hear about future enrollment announcements. A parent or guardian signs up for ages 14–17; students age 18 may sign up themselves.
The goal is to expand access through sponsors, grants, and partnerships. Tuition, funded places, and financial assistance have not been finalized. Free enrollment is not yet guaranteed.
No. The proposed youth curriculum uses fictional capital in supervised simulation. No real-money accounts, deposits, or live execution are part of the program.
This proposed Foundation initiative is being developed alongside Grady & Co Wealth. A separate nonprofit structure and appropriate governance are planned. The adult commercial courses on the main website have their own terms and enrollment arrangements.
Not yet. Donation processing, scholarship applications, certificate issuance, and credential verification will require later launches. The examples in the program blueprint are plans, not current awards or results.
The program updates signup asks for your name, email, connection to the program, confirmation that you are an adult, and permission to send program updates. Responses are saved through Grady & Co Wealth’s Wix account. For ages 14–17, parents or guardians enter their own details. You can unsubscribe from update emails or email info@gradycowealth.com. This site has no student application, ID upload, or payment form. Wix and site hosting services may process routine connection logs; fuller program privacy notices will be provided before enrollment opens.
