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Pleasant Hill Students Win Award in Stock Market Game
A team of students from Pleasant Hill School and their teacher, Georgina Regopoulos, were awarded first place in the spring 2005 session of the Stock Market Game™ program, an educational market simulation. The Pleasant Hill team’s portfolio, which benefited from the recent merger of Sears and K-Mart, was one of the three highest valued in a competition among 392 student teams within the Region 2, Grades 4-8 Division.
The winning student team—Bridget Babcock, Kurtis Benjamin, Sally Dillon and Benjamin Perkins—and Ms. Regopoulos received certificates of award. The students also were presented with CD cases and Ms. Regopoulos with a pocket calculator and a check for the purchase of educational supplies.
The Stock Market Game™ program is an investment simulation coordinated for students in Illinois by the Illinois Council on Economic Education, a unit of Northern Illinois University Outreach. Participating students benefit from learning economic and financial concepts while having fun investing a hypothetical $100,000 in a real-time portfolio. During the spring session, more than 15,000 students participated throughout the state.
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