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On Thursday, July 30, the winners of the SIFMA Stock Market Game and InvestWrite Contest will participate in the The Exchange’s Teacher’s Workshop Program.
Serenity Warren, from Chancellor Avenue School in Irvington NJ, winner of the Stock Market Game, will participate with parents and her teacher, Susan Sirrat. Alan Sostex, from Greenhill High School in Addison Texas, will attend with his parents.
The Stock Market Game
The Stock Market Game is a curriculum-based program where student teams in grades 4-12 learn long-term saving and investing fundamentals by using a hypothetical brokerage account. The program serves 20,000 teachers and 700,000 students annually. Teachers receive grade-level specific curriculum guides, lesson plans and newsletters to incorporate the program into their core mathematics, social studies, business, economics and language arts programs. For more on the Stock Market Game please visit: http://www.smg2000.org/
The InvestWrite Program
The national essay competition, a culminating activity for the Stock Market Game, requires students to draw on logic, critical thinking and writing skills to demonstrate how concepts learned in the classroom respond to a specific real-world investing situation. For more on InvestWrite please visit: http://www.investwrite.info/
The Teacher's Workshop Program
The 5-day workshop partners with educators to help them teach their students about the financial markets and their role in the global economy. Participants in the program include middle school, high school, and college educators from across the country. Held at the New York Stock Exchange, the workshop covers the securities markets, how companies raise capital, new market technologies, sources of information for students and investors, and much more. Teachers are provided support materials to assist in sharing the information with their students. Teachers have up-close interaction with brokers on the trading floor, hear presentations from NYSE staff and outside experts, and collaborate on lesson development ideas.
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