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Economic Education Awards Program

May 23, 2017

Awards program made possible with generous support from . . .

Center For Economic Education at Lynchburg College

The Center for Economic Education at Lynchburg College promotes economic literacy in Central Virginia with a special emphasis on K-12 teachers. Innovative, SOL-compliant economic education resources and training opportunities are provided to teachers in order to develop students into competent, productive participants in our local and global economy.

Member of Virginia Council on Economic Education And Council for Economic Education

Mini-Economy Market Day - March 29, 2017

The Mini- Economy program is an experience based program used to teach concepts of entrepreneurship, economics, and government in an elementary classroom setting.

Mini-Economy Market Day - March 29, 2017

Governor’s Challenge in Economics & Personal Finance 2017

With Virginia’s required course in economics and personal finance, the Governor’s Challenge provides high school students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and compete with student teams from around the Commonwealth. Winning Teams from each division are invited to Richmond to participate in the live competition round. (April 26, 2017)

VDOE Region 5 High Scoring Team DAVID RICARDO DIVISION (ECONOMICS)

Liberty High School

Ryan Balderston Marley Andrews Cathy Conway

Jeanne Willis, Teacher

VCU – Live Competition

VDOE Region 5 High Scoring Team DAVID RICARDO DIVISION (ECONOMICS)

E.C. Glass High School

Ethan Snyder Chelsea Williams Olivia Deddens Henry Newton

Jay Whitacre, Teacher

VDOE Region 5 Winner DAVID RICARDO DIVISION (ECONOMICS)

Jefferson Forest High School

Jessica Cheatwood Emily Deitrick Kayla Shadler Kayla Zinski

Ryan Stuller, Teacher

VDOE Region 5 High Winner Personal Finance DIVISION (ECONOMICS)

Rustburg High School

Kayla Bentley Grace Bigham

Marissa Ferguson Carrie Lloyd

Steve Clark, Teacher

VCU – Live Competition

Color the Economic Concepts This contest gives elementary students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of economic concepts in a creative and fun way.

Regional Honoree

Tristan Wall, 3rd Grade Appomattox Elementary School

Teacher: Melva Franklin

Regional Honoree Peyton Maxwell, 5th Grade

Appomattox Elementary School Teacher: Brittany Yeatts

Regional and State Winner Connor Elliott, 2nd Grade

Appomattox Primary School Teacher: Debbie Jamerson

Regional and State Winner Ciara Moore, 3rd Grade

R.S. Payne Elementary School Teacher: Kim Beuerle

The Stock Market Game The Stock Market GameTM is an online education program used to help teach math, social studies, business, economics, and language skills while focusing on the importance of long term saving and investing. Students in grades 4-12 participate in teams and manage a simulated portfolio.

Fall 2016

Fall 2016 Regional 3rd Place Team Leesville Road Elemementary

(Altavista YMCA) Teacher: Cynthia Fairchild

Students: Marcus Gafford and Caleb Soyars

Portfolio Value: $105,381.36

Fall 2016 Regional 2nd Place Team

Heritage High School Teacher: Pat Riley

Students: Destiny Davis, Kayla Baez, Max Sullivan,

Josh Myers Portfolio Value: $105,699.01

Fall 2016 Regional & State 1st Place Team

Heritage High School Teacher: Pat Riley

Students: Nathan Pelletier, Brian Johnson, MJ Godin


•  Pay attention to what is happening in the news and within the industries

•  Be willing to take risks §  Be prepared to sell, when you feel like the stock has peaked.

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Heritage High School

Year 2016-17

Year 2016-17 Regional 3rd Place Team Liberty High School Teacher: Jeanne Willis

Students: Ryan Balderston, Marley Andrews, Cathy Conway


Year 2016-17 Regional 2nd Place Team

Liberty High School Teacher: Jeanne Willis

Students: Rachel Decalmp, Dawson Davis, Grace Campbell,

and Alex Gray Portfolio Value: $103,992.98

Year 2016-17 Regional 1st Place Team


Students: Ta'Ron Robinson, David Dawson, Darius Woolfolk,

and Tyler Flaherty Portfolio Value: $106,497.22

Liberty High School SMG Winning student teams.

Spring 2017

Spring 2017 School Division 1st Place Team Appomattox Elementary School

Teacher: Melanie Ranson Students: Camden Harrison,

Landon Hamlett, Justin Jones-Schladweiler, Gray Peterson


In the Stock Market Game our best stock was Apple and our worst was Kellogg. We bought shares of these companies, too: McDonald’s, American Express, and Pepsico. They didn’t increase or decrease too much. We learned a lot about real world economics and investments. We learned to buy low and sell high.

- Appomattox Elementary School

Spring 2017 School Division 1st Place Team


Students: Ryan Balderston, Marley Andrews, Cathy Conway


Spring 2017 Regional 3rd Place Team Brookville High School

Teacher: Debbie Lester Students: Sarah Keen, Yomarie Rodriguez,

Rhi Stalnaker, and Christian Matherly Portfolio Value: $122,311.34

Spring 2017 Regional 2nd Place Team Linkhorne Middle School

Teacher: Brenda Murphy Students: Jamon Hubbard and

Ky’Andre Bryant Portfolio Value: $127,402.22

By participating in the Stock Market Game we learned that everyone had an equal chance. We had little to no knowledge of stocks but by using teamwork and contributing ideas we ended up enjoying our time working on it. We learned that stocks can fluctuate more than you expect – good or bad. We ended up learning very useful skills for future stock and business experience. Our investment strategies seemed to work quite well in terms of finding rising stocks. Our main strategy was finding lower priced stocks and looking at the 52 week high and low to see if it was going to rise substantially. Thank you to the National and Virginia Council on Economic Education for setting up this program. - Linkhorne Middle School

Spring 2017 Regional & State 1st Place Team

William Campbell Combined School Teacher: Andy Haga

Students: Dillon Angel, Maliek Beverly, Ayla Deaner


InvestWrite InvestWrite, an innovative national writing competition, produced by The Stock Market Game program, adds a critical thinking component to help reinforce concepts learned in the classroom. Students in grades 4-12 participate who are participating in the Stock Market Game Program can compete by writing an essay on a given topic.

High School Division – First Place in Virginia Marley Andrews, Liberty High School

Teacher Awards Economic Education

Unit Plan – High School Liberty High School

Jeanne Willis Lesson Title: Taxes for Life

Outstanding Economic Educator Runner-Up

Ryan Stuller Economics & Personal Finance Teacher

Jefferson Forest High School

Outstanding Economic Educator Runner-Up

Laura Taylor and Jennifer Martin

Civics & Economics Teaching Team Appomattox Middle School

Outstanding Economic Educator Winner

Melinda Sprinkle History Teacher

Forest Middle School

Congratulations to all award winners!

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