Stock market game pays off for Scarborough students

Scarborough Middle School students are showing the world just how much they know about business, the global economy and investing.

Student winners from the eighth-grade GATES Geometry class of the Stock Market Game fall competition and teacher Kerry Ellen Avery will be honored for their first-place achievement at the University of Southern Maine in May.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation’s Stock Market Game curricula, lessons, and hands-on student activities combine content, critical thinking, research and analytical skills in a state-of-the-art, real-world, online simulation. It provides teachers with a curriculum that reinforces Maine Learning Results while helping students learn the fundamentals of long-term savings and investing. 

Awards will be presented to fourth- to 12th-grade students whose investing strategies earned their hypothetical $100,000 portfolios the greatest returns.

“As we celebrate our 40th anniversary, the Stock Market Game continues to make learning about the capital markets fun and engaging, drawing students in and enabling them to learn about otherwise complex but important economic concepts such as inflation, price indexes, cycles and trends,” said Melanie Mortimer, president of the SIFMA Foundation. “We are proud and thrilled for all of our student teams who reached the top spots in the Maine SMG competition.”

Morgan Cuthbert ‘s seventh-grade students at Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth have undertaken a project to grow sea kelp from spores. The kelp, which can grow up to 3 meters, will be given to a sea farmer when it has reached optimal growth.

For more than a decade, a Falmouth High School team has traveled to a hurricane-impacted part of the U.S. and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. This year, the rebuilding trip traveled to Puerto Rico, where the students and their chaperones volunteered on an organic farm as part of World Central Kitchen’s Plow to Plate Program. 


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