Leadership opportunities for engaged teens in Teen Millionaires Club™

The Captain role is a selective leadership opportunity for teens enrolled in an eligible Teen Millionaires Club™ course. It is designed for young people who want more than just a seat in the cohort. It is for teens who want to help set the tone, support the group, and grow into real leadership responsibility.

For the right teen, Captain is not just another extracurricular. It is a chance to build confidence, practice leadership, strengthen communication skills, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.

For parents and guardians, it is an opportunity for a teen to step into a meaningful role that builds maturity, responsibility, and presence in a structured, supportive environment.

What is a Captain?

A Captain is a teen leader inside a TMC™ cohort.

While the Coach leads the course content and instruction, the Captain helps lead the experience. Captains help create an environment where teens feel welcomed, engaged, and encouraged to participate. They help bring energy to the room, keep momentum moving, and support a strong peer culture.

Captains may help with things like:

• Running the Cooldown game or engagement activity, such as Blooket
• Tracking attendance and participation during live sessions
• Asking thoughtful questions when discussion slows down
• Helping create a positive, inclusive tone
• Encouraging peers to stay engaged and involved

This role matters because the best learning environments do not happen by accident. They are shaped by people who show up with intention, energy, and care for the group.

Why become a Captain?

Because leadership is built by doing.

The Captain role gives teens a chance to practice real leadership in a live setting, with real people, real expectations, and real opportunities to grow. It is a way to move from simply participating to helping shape the experience for others.

Captains can build skills such as:

• Leadership and responsibility
• Communication and public speaking
• Confidence in live group settings
• Facilitation and group engagement
• Professionalism and presence
• Peer support and positive influence

For teens, this can become meaningful experience that supports future resumes, LinkedIn profiles, college applications, scholarship applications, and interviews. More importantly, it helps build the kind of confidence and maturity that carries into school, work, relationships, and life.

For parents and guardians, the value goes beyond the title. A strong Captain experience can help a teen grow in accountability, follow-through, confidence, and the ability to contribute in a group setting. Those are durable life skills.

Who is a good fit?

A strong Captain is not necessarily the loudest person in the room.

Often, the best Captains are teens who are dependable, thoughtful, steady, and genuinely interested in helping others have a better experience. They do not need to be perfect. They do need to be willing to step up.

Captain candidates are often teens who show:

• Maturity
• Reliability
• Initiative
• Emotional intelligence
• A positive attitude
• Comfort participating in a group setting
• Interest in leadership and helping others

Not every teen who applies will be selected, and that is intentional. The Captain role is meant to be a selective leadership opportunity, not an automatic add-on to enrollment.

What Captains gain

The Captain role is designed to be valuable to the teen serving in it.

Captains may receive:

• Meaningful leadership experience in a live cohort setting
• Orientation and training before the term begins
• Feedback and mentorship throughout the term
• A formal end-of-term evaluation
• A verifiable leadership credential or recognition for strong performance
• A recommendation letter or role description for future applications, when appropriate
• Possible future opportunities for greater responsibility within the Leadership Academy

This is not about busywork. It is about growth.

Important things to know

To keep expectations clear:

• Captains must be enrolled in an eligible TMC™ course
• Applying to become a Captain is separate from course enrollment
• Not every applicant will be selected
• Most cohorts will have exactly 1 Captain
• In rare cases, TMC™ may select more than 1 Captain to serve as Co-Captains
• Captains are selected before the first session so they can receive orientation and training

Every cohort is expected to have a Captain in place before the course begins. If no applicant is selected for a cohort, TMC™ may appoint a qualified Captain at its discretion to help ensure a strong cohort experience.

How the process works

The process is simple:

1. Enroll in an eligible TMC™ course
2. Submit a separate Captain application
3. Interview with our team, if selected to move forward
4. Receive a decision before the course begins
5. Complete Captain orientation and training before the first session

To allow time for review, interviews, and training, Captain applications are generally due 14 days before the first sessionof the cohort.

Is the Captain role paid?

No. The Captain role is designed as a developmental leadership opportunity for teens, not a paid position.

Captains still enroll in and pay for their TMC™ course like other participants. The value of the role is in the leadership experience, mentorship, training, feedback, and recognition teens may gain through serving in it.

Why this matters

At TMC™, we believe financial education is important. But leadership matters too.

We want teens to leave our programs with more than knowledge. We want them to leave with stronger voices, better judgment, more confidence, and a growing sense that they can contribute meaningfully in the rooms they are in.

The Captain role is one way teens can begin building that muscle early.

Ready to apply?

If this sounds like a strong fit, we would love to hear from you.

If you are enrolling in an eligible TMC™ course, you may also have the option to indicate interest in the Captain role during enrollment. Even if you do, a separate Captain application is still required.