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Money set aside for unexpected expenses, like a car repair or medical bill
What is an emergency fund?
This talk show host, author, and media mogul was an Upward Bound participant before becoming one of the most influential media figures in the world
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Oklahoma's statewide network of these schools (like Meridian Technology Center) offers hands-on training for careers such as welding, cosmetology, and nursing — often in under 2 years
What is a CareerTech (vocational-technical) center?
Located in Norman, this university is home of the Sooners and is Oklahoma's flagship research university
What is the University of Oklahoma (OU)?
This everyday item used by millions of shoppers was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Humpty-Dumpty grocery chain in Oklahoma City
What is the shopping cart?
This card lets you borrow money up to a limit, which you must pay back — often with interest if you don't pay it off in full
What is a credit card?
This actress, an Upward Bound alum at Rhode Island College, became one of the few performers ever to win the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony — an "EGOT"
Who is Viola Davis?
This type of 2-year public college offers associate's degrees and often serves as an affordable starting point before transferring to a 4-year university
What is a community college?
Located in Edmond & home of the Bronchos, this is one of the largest regional universities in Oklahoma
What is the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO)?
Oklahoma City was the first documented U.S. city to install one of these in 1935, devices still used today to manage street parking
What is the parking meter?
Every year by mid-April, working Americans must file these with the IRS to report their income and find out if they owe money or get a refund
What are taxes (tax return)?
This man, a 1976 University of Oklahoma alum and Project Threshold (TRIO Student Support Services) participant, has served since 2014 as Principal Chief of the Osage Nation
Who is Geoffrey Standing Bear?
This type of school awards bachelor's degrees and typically takes about 4 years to complete
What is a four-year university?
This community college, founded in 1901 as the state's oldest, has its main campus in Tonkawa with additional sites in Enid and Stillwater - includes gateway programs to OSU
What is Northern Oklahoma College (NOC)?
This battleship was struck by eight torpedoes in the first ten minutes of the attack on Pearl Harbor, losing 429 sailors and Marines — the second-highest death toll of any ship that day
What is the USS Oklahoma?
When you only pay the minimum on a credit card balance, this extra cost keeps building on what you still owe
What is interest?
Known as "The Father of TRIO," this man helped draft the Higher Education Act of 1965, was instrumental in creating Upward Bound, and founded Oklahoma's TRIO professional organization (ODSA) — a scholarship and achiever award are named in his honor
Who is Walter O. Mason, Jr.?
This is the number of Oklahoma CareerTech technology center districts statewide, offering training in fields like welding, cosmetology, and nursing
What is 29?
Founded in 1890 as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, this institution officially adopted its current name in 1957
What is Oklahoma State University (OSU)?
Located in downtown Tulsa, this small concrete circle is an acoustic anomaly — any sound made inside is loudly echoed back, but can't be heard by anyone standing outside it
What is the Center of the Universe?
This workplace retirement savings account often comes with an employer "match" — basically free money added to your savings
What is a 401(k)?
This president's "War on Poverty" led to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which created Upward Bound as part of a broader push that also produced Head Start and Job Corps
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)?
Adding up public universities, community colleges, higher education centers, and private universities gives roughly this total number of degree-granting institutions in Oklahoma
What is ~62?
These six institutions are home to the original Oklahoma TRIO/Upward Bound grants, which held their inaugural summer programs 60 years ago this summer
What are
Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant,
East Central University in Ada, Bacone Indian College was in Muskogee*, Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) in Weatherford,
Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee*, and Langston University in Langston*
This 2017 nonfiction book by David Grann, subtitled "The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI," was the basis for the 2023 Scorsese film
What is "Killers of the Flower Moon"?