BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. -- Union-Endicott High School juniors and seniors got a dose of reality Tuesday during the Reality Expo. It's an event designed to give high schoolers a look at personal finance.

The students were given different jobs and salaries and asked to make a balanced budget, including expenses like rent, car payments and groceries.

U-E partnered with Visions Credit Union in hopes that the teens will learn to make smart financial choices.

"Choices like housing, what car they're going to buy, student loan payments and how everything that they choose in life after they get out of school is a deduction from their monthly salary," said Jane Searles of Visions Credit Union.

"With this event, there were a lot of things that were unexpected, my grocery bill especially, spending money on my week and month, going out and things like that," said Anthony Espe, a senior at U-E.

Most students ended up running out of money before they reached their final station and had to go back and rebalance.