These students are also prepared to enter the graphic arts segment of the High School Art Curriculum. Andy Nevill made a collage of College Basketball players . Tom also teaches a class on the Stock Market. Students participating in the Stock Market Investment Group use on-line information to follow the Market and individual stocks. Students who are following a particular stock may take data from the Internet to make their own graphs of the quarterly or annual performance of stocks they are following.
Students bookmark sites for both daily stock updates and for corporate information.
The most common sites are Dow Jones sites, Forbes , Fortune, and other financial periodicals with on-line information. Academic Challenge is for students wishing to expand their knowledge in a large variety of areas. Students participating in Academic Challenge come to the Collaborative Resource Room anywhere from one to five times a week and use on-line information sources for enhancement of their general knowledge. They may focus on one of a variety of academic areas and may use a variety of sources from .edu sites to academic quiz game sites. Many of these students also participate on either the Varsity or Junior Varsity Scholastic Bowl Team.