By SAVANAH SWEETON
From Oct. 3 through Dec. 2, South Middle School gifted students are participating in the stock market game, a 10-week simulation of stock trading using the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) NASDAQ and American Stock Exchange (AMSE) quotes where students invest $100,000 in real stocks.
Fourth grade through college and adult are eligible to play. Elementary students can also participate, but they have their own stock groups and must have a teacher to participate.
Mrs. Pamela Page, the eighth grade gifted students’ teacher says, “I hvae the students do the game because it exposes them to the economy and how it is affected by world events. It is also a great program for thinking skills, decision making, and risk taking. If students decide to invest in stocks later in life, they will have some experience.:
The fifth hour students, Corey Hounschell, Lainie Nicolas, Savanah Sweeton, Kylie Hurrell, and Taysom Wallace, a student from North, all have one team and must make decisions on which stocks to buy, sell, or trade.
