The eight-session project is delivered through lectures and simulations in r sum preparation, mock interviews, professional dress, and dining etiquette. This project contains multiple sessions in the Fall and Spring semesters. Joanna Puentes, Stephen Sunquist,Christine Lorence.and Regina Palasota. Wall Street Kids - Children in eighth grade learn the principles of buying and selling stock through an Internet stock market simulation, guest speakers, and tours. Held over eight weeks, the children compete in teams to develop the best performing stock portfolio while learning corporate financing, how to read financial data, and more.
Project is run each semester.
Through several rounds, children obtain employment, receive paychecks, open checking and savings accounts, make capital and discretionary spending decisions and also face chance events that impact their budgets. At the end of the day, children are rewarded with prizes for lowest liabilities, highest net worth and more. Ran October 15 th . Houston Globe Traders - Over three weeks, UST SIFE taught basic market operations to middle school children. UST SIFE introduced the children to supply and demand and other economic concepts.