The Stock Market Challenge

If you are not a junior who is taking economics this semester, you should be very lucky. Many of the juniors at DRSS have been hyped up for the stock market challenge, and it is finally here. It started on Monday of this week, and half of these students are already drenched in their own tears while the other half of the students are filled with joy.

Last week, Mr. Pablo Nunez, who teaches World History and Economics, has spent time teaching his students about stocks, and the next step was to incorporate the skills they learned into the real world. Stocks are goods that keep a company available for sale. So, the students were given a project where the objective was to buy as many stocks as within the restrictions. In the first week, students are required to buy as many stocks and spend the $2 million dollars. This game of virtual and therefore any money that is being used is fake. In the following weeks, they have to trade these stocks, and by the end of the project, whosever group has the most amount of money remaining wins a $50 gift card from Mr. Nunez. This can feel like a game of life or death, but this is how the stock market is in real life. One mistake and that can end your life. So if you will be taking this economics class, then are you willing to take this risk?