About Us
Sanika Kothari, Founder
Sanika is a sophomore at Parkland High School, with a passion to give all people the necessary financial education they need to be on the right path for financial stability in the future. She founded Money Matters to provide students with this education of financial literacy. Sanika is a Science Olympiad National Gold Medalist, co-founder of non-profit organization called Big Brainers that provides lessons for students, as well as a member of Future Business Leaders of America, Science Fair, and the Parkland Math League. Additionally, Sanika is an Indian classical dancer and pianist.
Jayaditya Kothari, Founder
Jayaditya is an eighth grader at Springhouse Middle School who wants to give the knowledge of financial literacy to all. His aim when founding Money Matters was to educate others to give them a more stable future. He has experienced teaching others in various ways, such as peer tutoring at his school and at his Boy Scout Troop. Jayaditya is part of his school’s Science Olympiad team, Science Fair, and Parkland’s Math League. He also does karate, piano, Boy Scouts, and soccer.
Sanika and Jayaditya both have also learned the concepts of finance and its applications through many opportunities, such as an online course to learn real-life applications from people in the field of finance and simulating and predicting behaviors in the stock market.
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