BECU is stirring up competition among local high school students with a new pilot program: an educational app that contains three financial literacy games.
The $10.6 billion, Tukwila, Wash.-based credit union is already well-versed in financial education through its various classroom-style financial literacy programs for local children, teens, college students and adults. The idea of adding a competitive gaming element to its high school program originated during a conversation between executives at BECU and Slalom Consulting, a Seattle-based management and technology consulting firm that has been providing services to the credit union for three years.
Slalom Consulting developed mLevel, a gaming application hosted on Microsoft Windows Azure, to boost knowledge among the customers and employees of its clients, said Justin Jarrett, a practice area lead for Slalom. For BECU, the first credit union to test mLevel, the app also presented an opportunity to enhance learning.
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Natasha Chilingerian
Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade. She first joined CU Times in 2011 as a freelance writer, and following a two-year hiatus from 2013-2015, during which time she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union), she re-joined the CU Times team full-time as managing editor. She was promoted to executive editor in 2019. In the earlier days of her career, Chilingerian focused on news and lifestyle journalism, serving as a writer and editor for numerous regional publications in Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she holds experience in marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space. At CU Times, she covers People and Community news, cybersecurity, fintech partnerships, marketing, workplace culture, leadership, DEI, branch strategies, digital banking and more. She currently works remotely and splits her time between Southern California and Portland, Ore.
