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Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge
Presented by The Allstate Foundation

logo_smc.jpgNovember 13th, 2008

University of Denver Cable Center

      

Corporate Event, 6-10:00pm
Presented by The Allstate Foundation
Emcee: Gregg Moss, 9News

For more information, contact Shawna Robbins at 303-260-6286.

Test your investing prowess, or just test your luck! Mix and mingle with top business professionals, and enjoy this fun, unique and first-class event.

This action-filled evening will feature forty teams of eight competing to see who can grow their "mock" stock portfolio to achieve the highest overall net worth. Teams are issued $500,000 in mock stock to invest in 26 fictious companies. Each trading day lasts eighty seconds - two months of trading are condensed into one exciting evening. On-site traders with PDA's make buying and selling instantaneous, so trading is fast, furious and fun.

Periodic news releases and "hot tips" reflect fictious world events and industry developments, which in turn cause stock prices to fluctuate. Participants must be on their toes, constantly reacting to the market's ups and downs.

2007 Stock Market Challenge - Corporate Event Results

  

HIGHEST NET WORTH
First Place
ghSMART
net worth: $13,176,775.54    
portfolio growth: 316.98%

Second Place
DSTA Boys
net worth: $3,217,171.89    
portfolio growth: 302.14%

Third Place
OppenheimerFunds
net worth: $3,028,510.22    
portfolio growth: 278.56% 

HIGHEST PORTFOLIO GROWTH
John Casper
net worth: $2,996,734.72    
portfolio growth: 328.10%

High School Event, 11:30 - 1:30pm
Presented by The Allstate Foundation
Emcee: Lois Melkonian, KOA radio

For more information, contact Jennifer Venerable at 303-260-6285.

Over 275 local high school students will get a taste of Wall Street during the JA Stock Market Challenge student event. This event features teams from around the metro area competing to see who can grow their "mock" stock portfolio to achieve the highest overall net worth.

Teachers - select a team of 4-5 students to represent your school and participate in this highly interractive session about investing in and trading on the stock market. The frenetic atmosphere ensures urgent and intense action to simulate a real trading floor, thus guaranteeing a "Wall Street" -style learning experiences the students will never forget.

JA also offers the JA Take Stock in Your Future curriculum at participating schools. Presented by business volunteers, the goal of this classroom program is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the stock market, and equip students with the skills needed to successfully compete in the JA Stock Market Challenge student event.