Gus A. Stavros Center

State Farm makes $20,000 gift to Gus A. Stavros Center

Monday, June 18, 2018

State Farm, who in recent years has gifted more than $140,000 to the Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise and Economic Education, is continuing their support for the Center’s work in providing free financial literacy education programs to Tampa Bay area teachers.

Stavros Center professor receives award for work in literacy education

Stavros Center Instructor and Chief Creative Officer Deborah Kozdras, PhD, received the 2017 Friend of Newspaper in Education (NIE) award from Florida Press Educational Services.

Stavros Center workshop empowers educators to use cars to teach analysis, decision making

A recent workshop used the Disney Pixar’s “Cars” and the economic principle of making choices when it comes to the car buying experience to give teachers model-eliciting activities to use with the students in their classrooms.

Stavros Center workshop explores financial literacy using work of Leonardo da Vinci

The workshop explored the birth of the Renaissance period in Italy and the special circumstances that allowed for the emergence of a consumer culture.