Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee
Launches 3rd AZ529 Artwork Contest
Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee
visited with about 75 fifth graders at Harold W. Smith Elementary Faculty in Glendale
Monday morning, Jan. 29, to announce the third annual AZ529 Future Profession Artwork
Contest.
The AZ529 Arizona’s Schooling
Financial savings Plan, along with the Arizona State Treasurer’s Workplace are asking
Arizona kindergarten by means of six grade college students to image themselves of their future
careers and the training they might want to obtain these goals. The
third-annual AZ529 Future Profession Artwork Contest asks college students to attract, paint or
discover a artistic technique to make an artwork piece that photos their dream job. A complete
of 15 winners might be chosen throughout the state and obtain $529 towards opening
a brand new or present AZ529 Schooling Financial savings Plan account. No money awards might be
given.
The AZ529 Schooling Financial savings
Plan affords a tax-free strategy to setting cash apart for school, group
school, vocational coaching, commerce faculty and different academic avenues for
highschool graduates. Arizona residents can obtain a dollar-for-dollar state
tax deduction for contributions made to an AZ529 account annually, of as much as
$2,000 per beneficiary or $4,000 per beneficiary relying on submitting standing.
Funds earned over time will stay when used for all kinds of coated
academic bills. Moreover, family and friends members might add to a
little one’s AZ529 Plan at any time and earn the identical tax advantages for themselves.
Treasurer Yee used three blocks
when she talked to the scholars concerning the significance of economic training. The
prime dice was labeled Save, the
second Spend “spend it properly,” and the third dice Share “you’re the steward
of your account”. Saving requires persistence. Cash in a financial savings account can develop
as a result of curiosity is paid to that account, rising the amount of cash in
that account.
One unique entry
per scholar and will be no bigger than 81/2 x 11 inches. Contest entries might be
judged on 4 classes, every value 25 factors. These classes are
originality, creativity, group, and content material. One winner might be chosen from
a district, tribal, house, constitution, and personal faculty. Fifteen profitable college students,
one from every Arizona county, might be awarded $529 towards an AZ529 Schooling
Financial savings Plan.
To entry go to Artwork Contest Submission – Arizona’s
Schooling Financial savings Plan (az529.gov) for full rule and entry kind data. Entries have to be
uploaded at this aspect. Entries accepted by means of March3, 2024 11:59
p.m. (MST).
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Each day Planet no. 9161.
College students
and faculty officers on the launch of the 3rdAZ529
Artwork Contest. The Smith Coyotes have been the primary to study concerning the contest, Jan. 29,
2024.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Each day Planet no. 9144
Arizona
State Treasurer Kimberly Yee and 4 Harold W. Smith Coyotes pondering of their
dream careers and jobs and the best way to attain them. One of many first steps is to plan,
financially. And an efficient technique to begin is to have a 529 financial savings account.
Bette
Sharpe/Glendale Each day Planet no. 9151.
This
fifth-grade scholar aspires to be a nurse and work at a hospital, maintaining what
seems to the “germs” exterior. Dream
jobs from the 75 or so fifth grade college students included pro-athlete, nurse,
instructor, entrepreneur, architect, airman within the Air Power, soldier, actor, and
actor.