Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) logo In partnership with HPAIR
FinLit for schools & educators

Bring a real
finance lab
to your school.

FinLit runs the Capital Minds Fellowship as a live, mentor-led lab: Harvard student mentors at a 1:20 ratio, eight working sessions, and one real artefact every student ships and defends out loud. We run it as a school cohort, on your calendar, with a proposal priced per student.

1:20 mentor ratio 8 live sessions 45–120 min per session
School cohort
Scheduled around your term calendar
8 sessions Live on Zoom or on campus
Format
Hook · concept · AI lab · review
A 45-minute class period or a 120-minute double block. Same curriculum either way.
Outcome
Every student ships one real artefact.
H
Harvard student mentors
Small-group leads + capstone panel
Why it fits a school

Drops into the timetable
without a rebuild.

Two tracks, one rubric, and a format designed for a single class period. No teacher prep needed: our mentors run the room and your faculty observe or co-facilitate. It is the same financial literacy for high schoolers we run as a public cohort, sized to your school.

01

Eight live sessions

Run weekly on a Saturday cohort or inside the school week. 45-minute periods or a 120-minute double block.

02

Harvard student mentors at 1:20

Small-group leads sit with students through every lab and review every artefact before the panel.

03

Two tracks

Explorer for grades 5–8 (money, budgeting, dark patterns, compounding) and Strategist for grades 9–12 (investing, 10-Ks, ventures, fraud and taxes).

04

AI used honestly

Students keep an AI Workbook recording what they prompted, what the model returned, and what they kept, cut or rewrote. Judgment is graded, not output.

05

One rubric, start to finish

Judgment, Rigour, Clarity, Honesty. The same four axes from Week 1 to the live capstone, so faculty can see progress week by week.

Outcomes

What each student
walks away with.

Not a certificate of attendance. A body of work a student can show, and a defence they have already survived.

A

One shipped artefact

A budgeting tool, an investment thesis, a fee teardown, a venture pitch or a scam detector, built over the eight weeks.

B

A live defence

Five minutes in front of a mentor panel, taking real questions with no slides to hide behind.

C

An AI Workbook

A written record of how the student worked with AI, and where they overruled it. Useful evidence for teachers and admissions readers alike.

D

A portfolio piece

Published work students can point to. See real examples in The Lab.

How a partnership works

From first call to
capstone night.

Four steps, and a written proposal you can take to a head of school or a parent body.

01

Discovery call

Twenty minutes on your year groups, timetable and goals. We tell you honestly whether the fit is there.

02

Cohort sizing

We size the cohort and staff it to the 1:20 mentor ratio. Multiple sections run in parallel for larger year groups.

03

Written proposal

Dates, session plan, mentor bios, safeguarding notes and per-student pricing, sent as a shareable document.

04

Run and defend

Eight sessions, weekly artefacts, and a capstone night your faculty and parents are invited to.

Curriculum snapshot

Eight weeks,
no mystery.

Every session is a hook, a concept, an AI lab and a mentor review. Read the full week-by-week guide → More on who builds FinLit: about us.

School cohort
8-week syllabus
▸ LIVE · MENTOR-LED
W1
Investing fundamentalsStocks, bonds, ETFs, real assets from first principles
Research
W2
Portfolio thinkingBuild a 3-asset projection and stress-test it
Model
W3
Risk, return & behaviourWhy smart people lose money, and bias-proofing
Verify
W4
Reading a businessIncome statement, balance sheet, cash flow
Research
W5
EntrepreneurshipBusiness model canvas, pricing, unit economics
Draft
W6
Go-to-market with AIOne-pager plus the five hardest objections
Draft + Verify
W7
Fraud, taxes & the real worldScam scripts, tax regimes, contracts
Verify
W8
Capstone · build, pitch, defendA venture or investment thesis in front of a mentor panel
Draft + Verify
School cohorts · pricing per student on request

Want this for
your students?

Email team@learnwithleaders.com with your school, year groups and rough cohort size, and we will send a written proposal with dates, mentor bios and per-student pricing.