Money Smart Kid Essay Contest Another great opportunity for your students - the Money Smart Kid Essay Contest is worth $1,000 to the winning essay and is open to students in grades 7-11. To qualify, students must sumbit a 300 words or less essay answering the following question: Any investment has a certain amount of risk and an expected return. Describe to a potential investor how investing in you (such as paying for more education) will produce a return. Please discuss types of risk the investor could face. The submission deadline is March 14, 2014. Please help spread the word to your students. To learn more about the program visit the Iowa JumpStart Coalition web page: http://iowajumpstart.org/whatwedo/msw-iowa/. ICAN is proud to be part of Money Smart Week and the Iowa JumpStart Coalition.