SMG

by Mark Wert, Cincinnati Enquirer

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.

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.

For ten weeks, students throughout the state of Ohio are competing in an online simulation that introduces students to the stock market offered by the UC Economics Center for Education & Research called the Stock Market Game (SMG) Ohio. Students have created simulated portfolios by investing virtual money and researching companies. They are following real time stock market and learning about the economy.

INDIAN HILL – Three Cincinnati Country Day Middle School eighth-graders, who called themselves Triple Threat, turned out to be the real deal, winning the fall session of the Stock Market Game, sponsored twice yearly by the Economic Center for Education and Research at the University of Cincinnati. Lauren Wiley of West Chester, Carter McMaster of Milford and Ashley Streit of Indian Hill, turned a mythical investment of $100,000 into $118,618.24 by the end of the 10-week game.

About 800 Northeast Ohio high school students are trying to get rich virtually.

They are investing a hypothetical $100,000 in a 10-week program offered by the University of Cincinnati's Economic Center for Education & Research and sponsored by The Plain Dealer.

Student teams invest in stocks, bonds or mutual funds on Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. The contest uses an Internet-based simulation of the stock market, while teachers have access to online lesson plan activities. Student portfolios rise and fall, along with the real market.

About 800 Northeast Ohio high school students are trying get to rich virtually.

They are investing a hypothetical $100,000 in a 10-week program offered by the University of Cincinnati's Economic Center for Education & Research and sponsored by The Plain Dealer.

Student teams invest in stocks, bonds or mutual funds on Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. The contest uses an Internet-based simulation of the stock market, while teachers have access to online lesson plan activities. Student portfolios rise and fall, along with the real market.