Powership Experience for Youth

Free youth experience with cash prizes, food, and real-world skills in money, leadership, credit, and opportunity.
About this Event

What if young people learned the skills that school often doesn't teach?

The Powership Experience is a free, interactive youth event designed to help participants ages 14–21 build practical knowledge, confidence, and real-world skills for future success.

Through team challenges, engaging activities, and a featured presentation from M&T Bank, participants will explore how language influences opportunities in education, employment, business, leadership, and financial decision-making.

Youth will learn:

• The language of money, credit, and financial independence
• How contracts, agreements, and important documents impact decisions
• Professional communication and workplace expectations
• Leadership and problem-solving skills
• The basics of investing, saving, and managing money
• How to recognize opportunities and avoid costly mistakes
• How language can create barriers—or open doors

Participants can expect:

• Interactive team challenges
• Cash prizes for top-performing teams
• Free food and refreshments
• Leadership activities
• Networking and learning opportunities
• A certificate of participation

Whether a young person is interested in college, entrepreneurship, employment, homeownership, or simply making better decisions for their future, The Powership Experience provides tools they can begin using immediately.

Date: July 1, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Location: Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library, 1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY

Ages: 14–21

Cost: Free

Power Has Language.
Money Has Language.
Opportunity Has Language.

Learn how to speak it.