Roxbury High School students, Beth Yarbough, Ryan Coraggio and Sean Johnson, have taken fourth place in the Fall 2004 Northern Region High School Division of the Stock Market Game. These students participated in the Stock Market Game through their Business Management and Entrepreneurship class at Roxbury High School.
The Stock Market Game involves over 30,000 students from grades four through college each year. For the Fall 2004 competition, Roxbury’s team placed fourth among 237 teams competing in their division.
Mrs. Bachmura, teacher of the Business Management and Entrepreneurship course states, "I find it very rewarding to have a group of students who enter on the first day of class knowing little or nothing about the stock market. To have them place 4th out of 286 teams in New Jersey is quite an accomplishment. The students deserve so much credit. I am very proud of them.
The students who earned fourth place accrued fictitious portfolio equity of $123,695.17. Another group of Roxbury High School students, Krupesh Patel, David Montini and Stephanie Milne, placed fifteenth place with an accrued equity of $114,364.51. When the game began, each team’s portfolio was worth $100,000.00.
The New Jersey Council on Economic Education (NJCEE) and The Foundation for Investor Education sponsors the Stock Market Game. The NJCEE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to increasing the quantity and enhancing the quality of economic education in New Jersey schools.
The past two years Mrs. Bachmura has had two different groups of students finish second. Last year it was Maria Fano, Matthew Gerber and Steven Radkovich and the year before was Erin Donegan, James Lothian and Alkesh Trivedi.