In 2009, OppenheimerFunds provided volunteer support to the Stock Market Game in the form of nearly 60 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 2008/spring 2009 InvestWrite competition experienced a record 10,000 participants, a 13% 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 82,000 essays nationwide having been judged by teachers at the classroom level since inception.
For more information on the Stock Market Game, visit their website at: www.stockmarketgame.org.
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.
