UNITED STATES - April 6, 2026 - JazE Edutech, LLC, the education technology company behind the Success financial literacy board game, today announced the official digital launch of the Success platform — a fully digitized, classroom-ready version of the original physical board game — available at no cost to schools that qualify for sponsorship through partnering banks and financial institutions. The Success platform includes 1,100 lessons designed to align with the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education and features one of the largest financial literacy and workforce readiness educational libraries available to K-12 schools in the United States.

The announcement marks a significant expansion of the Success program, which was originally developed as a physical board game designed to teach students the fundamentals of financial decision-making, career planning, and real-world money management through experiential, game-based learning. The digitization of the platform makes the program scalable for national classroom adoption, removes cost barriers for under-resourced schools through a bank-sponsored access model, and extends the game's educational reach with a comprehensive digital library that goes well beyond the scope of the original physical edition.

From Board Game to Digital Classroom Platform: The Success Story

Success was conceived as a response to a persistent gap in American education: the absence of engaging, curriculum-aligned tools that teach young people how to navigate the financial and professional realities they will face after graduation. While traditional financial literacy programs rely on workbooks, lectures, and standardized assessments, Success was built on the premise that students learn financial concepts more effectively when those concepts are embedded in gameplay — in decisions, consequences, and competition that mirror real life.

The original board game was designed with a physical format that set it apart from conventional educational materials, creating an immersive table-based environment in which students move through the stages of financial life: earning, budgeting, borrowing, investing, and planning for the future. The game mechanics were structured to reflect authentic financial cause-and-effect relationships, teaching players not just what financial terms mean, but how financial decisions compound over time.

The digitization of Success preserves the core game architecture and decision-based learning model while adapting the experience for deployment across school computer labs, tablets, and classroom smart boards. The digital platform also introduces the financial literacy and workforce readiness library — a feature set that was not possible within the scope of the physical edition — and aligns content with the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education (co-published by the Jump$tart Coalition and the Council for Economic Education), a widely used framework for K-12 personal financial education. These standards focus on six core areas: Earning Income, Spending, Saving, Investing, Managing Credit, and Managing Risk.

Platform Features: What the Digital Success Includes

The digital Success platform is structured around three core components, each addressing a distinct dimension of financial and career education for K-12 students:

• The Success 3D Digital Game: A fully digitized version of the original board game, adapted for individual and classroom multiplayer formats. Students navigate financial life scenarios — including income management, debt decisions, career planning, and investment choices — within a game environment that provides immediate feedback on the consequences of each decision. The digital format supports teacher-moderated classroom play as well as independent student sessions.

• Financial Literacy Library (1,000 lessons): One of the largest curated financial literacy educational libraries available to K-12 institutions, covering personal finance fundamentals, credit and debt management, banking and savings, investment basics, entrepreneurship, tax literacy, consumer rights, student loans, FAFSA, cryptocurrency, mobile payments, and insurance. All library content is written at grade-appropriate reading levels and structured for integration with existing classroom curricula.

• Workforce Readiness Module (100 lessons): A dedicated workforce readiness module that extends the platform beyond personal finance into career preparation. Content includes resume and interview skills, workplace financial expectations, understanding pay stubs and benefits, navigating professional credit requirements, and the financial dimensions of career transitions. The workforce readiness addition is designed to bridge the gap between financial literacy education and the practical demands students will face upon entering the workforce.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education Alignment: Meeting What Schools Need

A key goal in the design of Success is alignment with the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education — the benchmark framework adopted by banks, financial institutions, and a growing number of school districts to assess whether programs address core student learning goals for personal financial education.

Many banks and corporate sponsors look for alignment with those standards when funding or endorsing school-facing financial education programs. By building the Success digital platform to meet these standards from the ground up, JazE Edutech has ensured that the program is positioned to satisfy the evaluation criteria of institutional sponsors — making it eligible for the bank-supported free sponsorship model that forms the foundation of the company's school access strategy.

The alignment also helps schools document use of Success as a standards-aligned financial literacy resource when reporting on curriculum goals, grant requirements, or district financial education initiatives.

The Bank Sponsorship Model: Free Access for Schools

The central mechanism behind the Success school rollout is a bank and financial institution sponsorship program through which qualifying schools receive free access to the full digital platform — including the game, the financial literacy library, and the workforce readiness module — at no cost to the school or the students.

Under the model, banks and financial institutions sponsor school cohorts as part of their community reinvestment, financial literacy outreach, or corporate social responsibility programs. The sponsoring institution funds the school's platform access in exchange for the ability to identify themselves as a financial education partner — a designation that is increasingly valuable to banks seeking to demonstrate community investment in underserved or financially underserved communities.

The structure creates a direct alignment of interests: schools gain access to a fully developed financial education platform at no cost; banks fulfill financial literacy outreach obligations and strengthen community relationships; and students receive structured, engaging financial education that prepares them for real-world economic participation. The digital platform provides sponsoring institutions with anonymized impact reports to assist with CRA compliance documentation. JazE Edutech facilitates the matching and onboarding process for both schools and sponsoring institutions through the platform's enrollment infrastructure at SuccessEdu.tech.

Why Game-Based Financial Literacy Works

The decision to anchor the Success platform in a game format rather than a conventional curriculum product reflects a body of research on how students engage with and retain financial concepts. Studies in educational psychology consistently show that game-based learning environments produce higher engagement, better retention of complex concepts, and stronger transfer of skills to real-world situations compared to lecture-based or workbook-based instruction.

Financial literacy, in particular, benefits from the cause-and-effect feedback loops that game mechanics can simulate. When a student in a traditional classroom learns that carrying a credit card balance results in interest accumulation, that concept is abstract. When the same student makes a spending decision in Success and watches their in-game financial position deteriorate over three game turns as interest compounds, the concept becomes concrete and memorable.

The workforce readiness addition further bridges the abstraction gap by connecting financial concepts to the specific situations students will encounter immediately after graduation — their first paycheck, their first benefits package, their first encounter with a credit application — making the platform relevant not just as curriculum content, but as direct preparation for adult financial life.

"Success started as a board game because we believed students needed to feel the weight of financial decisions — not just read about them. Digitizing the platform means we can bring that experience to every classroom in the country, and the bank sponsorship model means cost will never be the reason a school goes without it. Every student deserves to graduate knowing how money works." —JazE Edutech, LLC

Availability and Enrollment

The digital Success platform is available effective immediately through SuccessEdu.tech. Schools interested in accessing the platform through the bank sponsorship program can initiate the eligibility process through the website. Banks and financial institutions seeking to establish sponsorship partnerships with school districts in their service areas are encouraged to contact JazE Edutech directly through the platform's institutional partnership inquiry process.

The platform is designed to accommodate schools of all sizes and district configurations, from individual classroom deployments to district-wide rollouts across multiple schools. All media assets, platform information, and educational content documentation referenced on the SuccessEdu.tech website are available for press and media use.

About JazE Edutech, LLC

JazE Edutech, LLC is an education technology company specializing in game-based financial literacy and workforce readiness solutions for K-12 schools. The company is the developer of Success — originally launched as a physical board game and now digitized for national classroom deployment — featuring one of the largest financial literacy libraries available to American educators. The Success digital platform is designed to align with the 2021 National Standards for Personal Financial Education and is available at no cost to schools that qualify through the company's bank sponsorship program. JazE Edutech's mission is to ensure that every student graduates with the financial knowledge and career readiness skills required to navigate adult economic life with confidence. For more information, visit SuccessEdu.tech.

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