Pepperell Middle team wins Stock Market Game
♦ Students increase their hypothetical portfolio by more than $20,000 in 10 weeks.
A team of Pepperell Middle School students has been named the winning team in the Fall 2019 Georgia Stock Market Game in both Floyd County Schools and the 14th Congressional District.
Students Brooklyn Duck, Avery Tanner, Brice Harris, and Danny Busby of Brett Lane’s seventh-grade Social Studies class swept the competition in the middle school division with a portfolio value of $121,832.64.
The Stock Market Game demonstrates real-life applications of economic standards, reinforces teamwork and may lead students towards career choices within the finance and business worlds. Unlike real equity markets, the exercise offers students a safe and painfree place to learn that the lessons of market economics can sometimes be costly.
According to the Georgia Council on Economic Education, the game is designed to give Georgia teachers a tool for showing students how scarcity, trade, opportunity cost, voluntary exchange, price incentive, specialization, productivity, and many other economic concepts play out in financial institutions. The students use the equity markets as the model for the game.
Teams are given a hypothetical portfolio of $100,000 that they invest over a 10week period. The team from each public school district or independent school geographic region with the highest portfolio value at the end of the trading session wins.
This is Lane’s fourth year having his class participate in the Stock Market Game.
“It aligns to our standards and allows students to see how savings and investments are important ways to promote healthy financial decisions that can improve our lives and the economy,” he said. “I could not be more proud of the accomplishment that these students have achieved.”
To celebrate their success, Avery, Brice, Brooklyn, Danny, and Mr. Lane will attend the annual awards luncheon for the Georgia Stock Market Game on May 6 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta.