Fayette students playing the market

Fayette students

playing the market

Some people

lost a great deal of money in the fluctuating stock market in 2000, but

students at McIntosh High School skirted around market uncertainties and

grew their initial investments through the Stock Market Game.

Their carefully

calculated decisions paid off in the form of being declared the winners

of the Georgia Council on Economic Education's Stock Market Game for the

Fayette County schools' region in the Internet game version. After starting

with a hypothetical investment of $100,000, they finished the 10-week

competition with a portfolio valued at $123,363.

Teacher Diane

Basham served as advisor to team members Ashley Darrow, Katie Decell and

Elizabeth Blanco during the game last fall.

Every fall

and spring, student teams compete in two Stock Market Game categories,

paper and Internet. Students playing the paper game version mail in trading

forms while students playing the Internet edition trade online.

Each year,

more than 40,000 students from public and private elementary, middle and

high schools compete in Georgia's Stock Market Game, the second largest

in the nation.