The Stock Market Game
Love economics and investing? Check out The Stock Market Game, a fun, fast-paced simulation in which you compete to invest and grow a fictional $100,000 account.
“What would you do if you were given $100,000? Would you spend it all at once? Would you think about putting some of it in the bank? We’d like to teach you how to invest it, so you might grow it. Through The Stock Market Game (SMG), you will gain a fundamental understanding of investing and how you might get your money to work for you.
The Stock Market Game will also help you do better in school. When you participate in The Stock Market Game, you are in a real-world situation where you practice the content and skills you’re taught in math, English Language Arts, economics, social studies, and other school subjects. Most importantly, The Stock Market Game will help you develop positive money habits and prepare you for your future”
How do I get started? Check out the website for The Stock Market Game.
How do I expand this narrative arc? If business is part of your narrative arc consider one of these:
Did you love the Stock Market Game and do you want to try another fun competition? Check out the Wharton Investment Competition
For more of an academic take on business and investing try the Wharton Management and Tech Summer
Check out one of the many DECA-sponsored business challenges.
Combine business sense with public interest activism when you enter the Mastercard Challenge to improve banking access to low income populations.
Compete in the National Economics Challenge
Are you an innovative thinker? Consider entering the Mastercard Challenge, where you create new financial products to expand banking access to underserved populations
Take one of your passions and start a business in your local community