In 2008, OppenheimerFunds sponsored the Stock Market Game program for participating schools in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a community near our headquarters. The grant covers program activation fees and daily delivery of The New York Times to the schools, professional development for teachers, and sponsorship of the annual awards ceremony. For the 2007-2008 school year OppenheimerFunds sponsored 28 schools with 902 teams and approximately 4,500 students.
OppenheimerFunds has sponsored The Denver Post Rocky Mountain News Stock Market Game in Colorado for the past five years. Our grant helps defray program fees and the cost of daily newspaper delivery statewide for schools that participate in the program. OppenheimerFunds’ support also helps provide a teacher support center, a Colorado standard-based curriculum guide, and prizes for winning teams. Overall, the Stock Market Game estimates that it reaches over 5,000 students in grades 4-12 across Colorado.
OppenheimerFunds also provided volunteer support in the form of 23 executives in New York and Denver serving as judges for the Stock Market Game InvestWrite competition. Introduced in 2004, InvestWrite is an innovative, bi-annual national writing competition for elementary, middle and high school students. Continually expanding its reach, the fall 2007/spring 2008 InvestWrite competition experienced a record 16,027 participants, a 31% increase over the prior year. Directing students to write essays based on real life savings and investment scenarios, the contest has been incredibly successful, with over 55,000 essays nationwide having been judged by teachers at the classroom level since inception.
For more information on the NY Stock Market Game, visit their website at: www.stockmarketgame.org.
To learn more about the Colorado Stock Market Game, visit their website at: www.ccee.com.
The Stock Market Game is an on-line education program designed to help teach students in grades 4 through 12 math, social studies, business, economics and language skills while focusing on the importance of long-term savings and investment. Since its introduction in 1977, this stock market simulation has reached more than nine million students nationwide.
