For 100 years now, credit unions have been serving members in the U.S. and we are celebrating all week!

For today’s celebration, we invited 4 teachers to bring their classes to the credit union. We showed them around, taught them some personal finance lessons, and fed them lunch.

We got lunch from our favorite place, Chick-fil-a at Mt. Berry Square! They were wonderful to deliver delicious boxed lunches complete with a brownie! Yum!

We walked around and got the full ‘behind the scenes’ tour.

Students always love to hear about how the drive-thru works. While I was at the Branch office, the tellers were showing a class how the drive-thru tubes work when it stopped all of a sudden! Oops…did we break it?

A few minutes later it started to work again…whew!

The kids asked great questions about money – most of which I could answer! Did you know that the largest bill in circulation today is the $100 bill? Everyone thinks there has got to be something larger. Not anymore!

And a special thanks goes to Amanda at the Branch for showing the students all of the rare coins that are so hard to find in circulation – that was really fun for them!

Another popular question today was about the prize wheel. They wanted to know what they needed to do to spin it and win that $100 VISA gift card. I had to let them down gently that it was only for members getting auto loans. But they had a great time spinning the wheel – even if it wasn’t for real.

Thanks to all of the teachers who ventured out into the rain to bring their classes to the credit union! We had a great time and we hope they learned a lot!