Rural AmeriTowne

Rural AmeriTown is a resource for schools in northeastern Colorado, northwestern Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska. It offers a hands-on introduction to basic principles of our economic system by allowing students to run their own rural town.

At school, students engage in a variety of interactive lessons that focus on banking, civics, free enterprise, advertising, laws, philanthropy, job interviews and more. Students prepare for their opportunity to run a life-size town by interviewing for jobs, conducting employee business meetings, and attending job-training sessions.

During a day-long field trip, the students move into the town of 10 businesses and transform from students of economics to citizens of Rural AmeriTowne.

Rural AmeriTowne is modeled after Young AmeriTowne, and has been adapted to a rural economy. It is a project of the Young Americans Center for Financial Education