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title: Scott Niederjohn
description: This Lakeland College economics professor has taught hundreds of Wisconsin K-12 teachers how to teach personal finance to their students.
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![Scott Niederjohn](https://img.money.com/2014/12/141209_her_niederjohn.jpg?w=279)

### Age: 40  
Hometown: Sheboygan, Wis.  
Cause: Early financial education

An economics professor at Lakeland College, Niederjohn launched the school's Center for Economic Education as a sideline project to help adults raise a generation of financially literate kids. Since 2006, via everything from one-day seminars to semester-long courses, he's trained hundreds of Wisconsin K-12 teachers to teach financial concepts, showing them how to use specialized curriculums, games, and other tools—for example, a lesson plan he wrote to explain international trade titled "Should LeBron James Mow His Own Lawn?"

### Says Niederjohn:

> *Weighing costs and benefits is a great way to think about life. That's why I got interested in teaching economics to young people."*

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