The students in Shea McCrary’s business math class at Muldrow High School placed first in The Stock Market Game Northeast Regional competition and fifth in the state competition. From the left are McCrary, Tiffany Sims, Cheyenne Vaughn, Hailey Faulkner, Kiera Underwood, and D. J. Thompson, Oklahoma Council on Economic Education executive director.
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The team of Hailey Faulkner, Tiffany Sims, Cheyenne Vaughn, and Kiera Underwood placed first in the Northeast Regional competition out of 23 teams. The team also placed fifth in the state competition out of 204 teams.
The program is a statewide contest sponsored by the Center for Economic Education at the University of Central Oklahoma.
The students are divided into teams and each team is given a virtual cash account of $100,000. They strive to create the best performing portfolio using a live stock market trading simulation.
The students work together in teams to pick stocks based on research and evaluation. The winning teams are based on which team has the highest return on their investments at the end of the 10 week game, McCrary said.
“I am very proud of these ladies for winning the regional championship. They utilized teamwork and always had a game plan to keep their team in the top spot of the daily team rankings,” McCrary said.
“I am a big fan of The Stock Market Game because the program reinforces critical thinking, decision making, research skills, and saving and investing which are skills that they can utilize in academics as well as help them to succeed in life,” McCrary said.
“It is a hands on approach to learning about the stock market as opposed to just hearing about it,” McCrary said.
