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At the Winter Marketplace, which is a StEP (Student Enterprise Program) event held in partnership with UC’s Economics Center, students were also able to spend five of the Warrior Bucks they’d earned for good behavior to buy a card to send to the troops. The cards will be included in a future mailing from the Yellow Ribbon Support Center.

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Students can learn first hand about financial markets and investing through a simulation game offered by the University of Cincinnati's Economics Center beginning Oct. 10.

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The fall session of the Stock Market Game runs through Dec. 6. The 10-week game gives students in grades 4-12 the opportunity to learn about investing and saving by handling a virtual portfolio of $100,000.

The University of Cincinnati’s Economics Center honored Mason High School teacher Cindy Donnelly earlier this month with its Financial Education Teacher of the Year award.

Donnelly, the chair of Mason’s technology and business department, was nominated for the award by Randy Doughman, the district’s secondary technology curriculum leader, for her contributions to education outside of the classroom.

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Grant’s Lick Elementary School students aren’t just learning history, they’re selling it.

Students, in a cooperative effort with the University of Cincinnati’s College of Business Student Enterprise Program (StEP), made their own history-inspired products and devised marketing campaigns complete with video commercials to make a sale at the school’s March 24 American history festival.

Vincent Byndon, a fourth grader at Winton Woods Elementary School, holds his sign supporting SOUL Ministries during the school's "Warriors Give Back" winter marketplace.

Offering various coffees from around the world for a good cause, 20 kids are learning what it takes to run a business.

They're sixth-graders running the Palazzo de Caffe shop at Dater Montessori Elementary School in Westwood.

The program, which runs from September through May, is in its second year and is organized by the Economics Center's Student Enterprise Program at the University of Cincinnati.

Starting with this year's high school freshmen, all Ohio students must receive financial literacy education to graduate.

But some area schools are slow to embrace the new law, a University of Cincinnati educator contends.

"There are schools we offered services to that said, 'No thank you.' I'm not sure that they aren't in violation of the law," said John Morris, chief operations officer of the UC Economics Center for Education & Research. "Others embrace it. They teach it with high levels of rigor. We're hoping to get more schools to embrace the idea that this is critical."

Students in kindergarten through 12th grade are signing up this fall to compete in a battle to prove who is the most financially saavy.

The annual Stock Market Game held by the University of Cincinnati's Economics Center for Education & Research kicks off Oct. 11. So far, 750 teams of three to five students from all over Southwest Ohio have signed up to compete.

The competition is designed to promote financial literacy and starts student teams with an imaginary $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds from the New York, Nasdaq and American exchanges.