GSEA turns up on nearly every "best business competitions for teens" list — but it's actually built for college students already running a real, revenue-generating business. Here's the fine print those lists leave out, and where your teen should actually start.

The Harvard Crimson Business Competition's fees look simple on paper: $50, then $300. What they don't tell you is that $300 is per person, not per team — and that's before a single flight or hotel night is booked. Here's the complete, honest cost breakdown every family should see first.

Five major teen business competitions, five very different fits — and the right one almost never comes down to which looks most impressive. A real, honest walkthrough of what each actually involves, and how to pick the one your teen will actually want to finish.

Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, and Brown just reinstated SAT requirements — backed by data showing test scores predict college performance four times better than GPA alone. But the real story for parents is quieter: what's becoming just as valuable is an achievement no AI tool can fake.

There's a specific kind of idea a lot of teenagers are quietly sitting on — mentioned once at dinner, then never brought up again. The Blue Ocean Competition is built for exactly that idea: free, entirely virtual, and open to any student aged 14–18, anywhere in the world. Registration for 2027 is open now.

Family financial support to Gen Z dropped from 46% to 34% in just two years — not because parents pulled back, but because Gen Z chose to. Here's what Bank of America's 2026 data reveals about the shift, and why it matters years before a teen's first paycheck.

85% of teens say they want financial education in school — yet Gen Z's financial literacy just hit a 10-year low. Everfi's 2026 survey of 161,900 students reveals the real bottleneck, and it isn't the students.

70% of teens want to learn how to invest, but only 14% say they actually know how. 62% of parents say it's harder to teach than driving. Here's what the 2026 data reveals — and how to close the gap.

Created under the 2025 tax law, the new federal Trump Accounts program deposits $1,000 into a custodial traditional IRA for eligible U.S. children born between 2025 and 2028. However, parents must actively file IRS Form 4547 to claim the funds, which are subject to a combined $5,000 annual private contribution cap and will be taxed as ordinary income upon withdrawal.