The winner of the fall game was a team of students from teacher Janice Jensen's classroom at Cannon Middle School in Las Vegas. Dates for the spring game will be Feb. 12 to April 20. Classrooms need to have Internet access in order to participate. Teachers who never before have participated in the game are required to attend one of seven workshops that will be conducted throughout the state in late January and early February. Pre-registration for the workshops is required.
Space is limited because of the amount of computer lab space available.
The workshops will present information on the basics of stock market trading mechanics in the context of a curriculum model covering economics, personal and consumer finance, and an understanding of the free market system. Substitute release coverage is available for the workshops. The Nevada Stock Market Game is sponsored by the office of Secretary of State Dean Heller, which pays team fees from fines generated by securities fraud violators. Pre-registration for the spring game is available. The Barbara Schick Center for Economic Education at UNLV is the operational arm of the Nevada Council on Economic Education.