The small room adjacent to the lobby in Carlisle High School's Fowler Education Center used to be a vending area where students and staff could go to deposit their money into vending machines.

Now, it will still be a place where students and teachers can go to deposit money, except now it will be in a credit union.

Next week, Carlisle High School will host the grand opening of its student-run branch of the Members 1st Federal Credit Union. A grand opening ceremony will take place at the Fowler Education Building at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 16.

"I'm excited. This is awesome," said Michele Orner, director of the high school's Center for Careers and Technology.

The opening of the credit union branch will mark the beginning of a partnership between the Center for Careers and Technology and Members 1st Federal Credit Union to provide financial literacy education to students. Classroom financial education will be available to students through Members 1st's LIFE financial education program, and a Carlisle High School cooperative extension student will work at the high school branch with a Members 1st employee. In addition, the high school business department's entrepreneurship class will be responsible for the marketing of the student-run branch, Orner said.