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Article: Utah High School Students Win 2008 National Capitol Hill Challenge Stock Market Game
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 28, 2008
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Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association issued the following news release:
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today announced that three juniors at Riverton High School in Riverton, Utah are the 2008 national champions of the "Capitol Hill Challenge Stock Market Game."
The Challenge uses the highly regarded curriculum-based Stock Market GameTM Program to help students develop math, economic and research skills associated with long-term saving and investing and to better understand how the capital markets work. Teams of three to five students each invest a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio in real-world securities transactions. At the end of the ...