2012 LifeSmarts FCCLA Challenge is Live!

Attention FCCLA Advisers: FCCLA Chapters have the opportunity to compete tp represent FCCLA at the 2012 National LifeSmarts Championship by competing in the 2012 LifeSmarts FCCLA Challenge! To qualify, teams must compete in the online LifeSmarts FCCLA Challenge open from January 24-February 4, 2012. Click for details.

LifeSmarts 2012 Training Camp: Washington, DC

Happy New Year! Coaches, you're invited to attend the 2012 LifeSmarts Training Camp in Washington DC, January 27-28, 2012. The Training Camp was designed to introduce students and educators to LifeSmarts content through games, activities and competition, and inspire enthusiasm for learning! Register now.

Beat the Clock!

Coaches, online competitions are wrapping up soon! Be sure to register online, and have your students compete online before your state online competition closing date.

January TeamSmarts Champions

  • LifeSmarts team: Willow3rd-6, Minnesota, Coach Lois Johnson
  • FCCLA team: Friona High School FCCLA, Texas, Coach Gayle Murdock

Welcome to LifeSmarts

LifeSmarts, the ultimate consumer challenge, is an education and competition program that develops the consumer and marketplace skills of teens in a fun way! Read more.

Are you a new coach?

Countdown to Nationals: 75 days

LifeSmarts is free and available to teens in every state. Select your state to learn more.

Daily Quizzes are five question quizzes that test your knowledge in a specific, rotating category.

Welcome, FCCLA Advisers! Get started with LifeSmarts.


Learn how Missouri teacher Bonnie Baker helps her students stay engaged, have fun, and prepare to take on life after graduation!

2012 Training Camp: Washington, DC

Read the January 2011 LifeSmarts Bulletin

January TeamSmarts is open 1/1-1/31

LifeSmarts in 5 minutes a day

LifeSmarts submits application to the ChangeTheWorld.org Consulting Program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.



Thank you


LifeSmarts thanks Visa for being a major underwriter for the 2011-2013 program years.

LifeSmarts thanks Experian for its generous support of the LifeSmarts program.