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The Stock Market Game™ (SMG) is a unique program designed to provide the most realistic, educational and reliable stock market simulation available to both teachers and students. It is a valuable and motivating tool in teaching the fundamentals of investing, as well as learning about how our overall economy works. (Trading Sessions)

The SMG is offered to all students and teachers in grades 4-12, as well as college students and adults -- for 10-week trading sessions during fall, spring and summer semesters.  Additionally, a year-long game is available for those wishing to track their progress for longer than 10 weeks.

The primary purpose of the SMG is to provide an active, motivating device for teaching fundamental economic concepts.  The Game is inter-disciplinary and teaches and reinforces concepts and skills learned in mathematics, social studies, language arts, technology, business, and family and consumer sciences. Additionally, the SMG has a new Teacher Support Center which includes more than 25 lessons which are correlated to the national and state standards in math, social studies, language arts, technology and business and are customizable to grade level.

  • Student teams, consisting of 3 to 5 members each, will manage a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio -- investing in common and preferred stocks traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges, including Initial Public Offerings and Mutual Funds.
  • Students in grades 4-12 and college and teachers will compete for both regional and statewide honors in the following divisions: elementary, middle, high school, college, and teacher/adult divisions.  Awards will be given based on portfolio value at the end of the trading session.
  • Prizes will be awarded at regional awards banquets in May of each year.
  • All rankings will be updated daily and available 24 hours a day on the SMG web site. 
  • All trades are placed on the internet and receive real-time pricing.
  • FREE 2-hour Training Workshops for teachers and free teacher promo sessions
  • SMG website features:  Online tutorial, quotes, charts, research tools, teacher support center featuring standards-correlated lessons.
  • Follow up with the InvestWrite national and state essay competition.
  • Price is $14.00 / per team for the semester game, $25/per team for the year-long session.  Ask about scholarship opportunities!
  • For information on scholarships email swheat@nccee.org.
2007-2008 NC Trading Sessions: 

Year Long:  September 4, 2007 through April 25, 2008

Registration Deadline:  December 15, 2006

Fall 2007: October 1, 2007 through December 7, 2007

Registration Deadline:  September 30

Spring 2008:  February 11 through April 18, 2008

Registration Deadline:  February 10, 2008

Summer 2008:  TBA

2007-2008 Free 3-week Teacher Promo Periods:  Teachers may try out the SMG and its features free of charge before using the program with students.

September 4-September 21, 2007

October 10-October 19, 2007

January 14-February 1, 2008

February 4-February 22, 2008

March 24-April 11, 2008

 

 

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