NEWS RELEASE 2011
ABA Media Contact: Marquita Powell  
(202) 663-5418
E-mail: mpowell@aba.com   

[Note to Editor: Announcement will be streaming on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeachChildrenToSave]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 – Tomorrow the American Bankers Association Education Foundation will broadcast on YouTube the Lights, Camera, Save! video contest’s grand prize winners. [www.youtube.com/TeachChildrentoSave]

“We’re excited for the finalists and wish them luck tomorrow,” says Laura Fisher, director of the ABA Education Foundation, the group that sponsors the program.  “We congratulate all of the participants and encourage them to start young, save more.” 

Lights, Camera, Save!, launched late last year as an offshoot of the ABA Education Foundation’s Teach Children to Save program, is a unique competition that encourages youth to use video to communicate the value of saving and inspire others to become lifelong savers.

Some 170 banks from 45 states hosted local levels of the competition and selected a winner to represent their bank and compete on the national level for a $3,000, $1,500 or $500 U.S. savings bond or an iPod® Touch.

The Lights, Camera, Save! finalists’ videos were submitted by the bank’s listed below in no particular order:

• United Bank & Trust (Manhattan, Kan.)
• Wolverine Bank (Midland, Mich.)
• The First National Bank of Suffield (Suffield, Conn.)
• American Trust & Savings Bank (Dubuque, Iowa)
• Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Association (Lake Success, N.Y.)
• Athens Federal Community Bank (Etowah, Tenn.)
• Cameron State Bank (Lake Charles, La.)
• Hilltop National Bank (Casper, Wyo.)

Grand prize winners will be announced tomorrow, March 1 at 11:00 am (EST) via YouTube. Check out the eight finalist videos online at www.youtube.com/TeachChildrentoSave.

The parent program, Teach Children to Save, is a national campaign to organize banker volunteers in efforts to educate young people about the importance of developing a lifelong savings habit. This year the program will celebrate its 15th anniversary. Since 1997, it has reached more than 4 million young people with the help of nearly 100,000 banker volunteers, an annual awareness day ‐‐ Teach Children to Save Day ‐‐ the Teach Children to Save Web site: www.teachchildrentosave.com, and now the  Lights, Camera, Save! video contest.

For more on the contest, visit www.TeachChildrentoSave.com and look for the Lights, Camera, Save! icon in the top right corner.
 
[Note to Editor: Announcement will be streaming on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeachChildrenToSave]

The ABA Education Foundation provides financial education programs and resources that help bankers make their communities better. More than 110,000 bankers have taught basic finance skills to about 4.7 million young people through participation in the Foundation’s signature programs, Teach Children to Save and Get Smart About Credit. Founded by bankers in 1925, the foundation is guided by a board of bankers and is an affiliate of the American Bankers Association.

For more information, visit www.abaef.com or call 1-800-BANKERS. 

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