Yorkville High School Sophomores Win The Stock Market Game

YORKVILLE, IL — Yorkville High School Sophomores Ronan Jones and Kyle Ryan have won the fall 2018 semester of The Stock Market Game, an online educational simulation used in classrooms across the country. The intro to business students competed with other 9th to 12th graders across the region, besting 381 other teams.

The Stock Market Game is run by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, an industry trade group representing primarily banks and other asset brokers. According to the group, the game is used to teach students how the stock market works while emphasizing saving and investing strategies.

Students work in teams to research companies and invest $100,000 in fake money. The team that makes the most money at the end of the game wins.

"Through their participation, student teams gain practical knowledge about markets, learning such concepts as risk and diversification," officials said. "While the students think they're playing a game, their teachers know they're learning real-life economic and financial skills that will benefit them for years to come."

Access to the game is offered to Illinois students through Econ Illinois, a statewide affiliate of the national Council for Economic Education, located at Northern Illinois University. Since its creation in 1988, officials say the program has enrolled more than 700,000 Illinois students in its economic education programs.

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