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Meghan Lowe is perhaps the only accountant with a PhD from Harvard Business School who goes to her job at the stock market wearing a honey-bee hat and yellow duct-tape stripes wound around her black suit.
But then, the trading floor where she was working Thursday is like none you’ve ever seen before. For the 33rd year, every Grade 8 student at Glashan Public School was in the gym, re-creating a stock market. Bells rang to signal the start and end of trading, there was frantic buying and selling, and lots of paper money and stock certificates circulated.
The students created brokerage firms with clever titles, employee biographies, customer promises, and charts and graphs proving how great they would be at managing your money. “Here’s our business card,” said Lowe, 13, who created Honey Bee Brokers (“We’ll make you money like bees to honey”) with Julie Christenson, 13, and Shuyla Holmes, 12.
“You can invest with us,” she explained. “We’re very honest, and we’ll tell you everything.”
Michele Lorusso, 13, said his mom helped him come up with the “cool” name for Easy Money Brokers. The team decided to invest in Alberta Gas stocks — “cars need gas, and lots of people need cars,” he explained with unassailable logic.
Next door at Leprechaun Brokers (“We will lead you to your pot of gold!”) , Genevieve Packer was counting money while Julie Wechsler recorded prices on a sheet of paper labelled “cash flow.” “We tried to think of a name that had a friendly image,” explained Packer. “And they’re lucky.”
Emma Colby of Leprechaun Brokers team keeps a close eye on the market at Glashan Public School’s stock market day.
David Todd and his buddies in Batman Brokers sported black masks. The name alone could give them a competitive edge. “I’m pretty sure most people are Batman fans,” said Todd.
Stock market day offers students lessons in everything from math to writing, art and history, not to mention boosting skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration, says math teacher Brian Le Sage. Students have such a blast, they might not realize the messages they are soaking up. “If you prepare, and you work hard, and do your homework, and have drive, energy, and creativity, you can get ahead.”
Genevieve Packer counts the money at Leprechaun Brokers.
The market is as realistic as possible, including the frenzied competition, said Le Sage. “The boys love it when you keep score.” Indeed, at one point a lad in a white business shirt could be seen running — and heard — across the floor, rubbing his hands in glee and shouting, “I’m going to make a killing!”
Normally, it’s hard to keep kids focused in the days before Christmas, when “they’re crazy for Cocoa Puffs,” notes Le Sage. “But they’re here, they’re incredibly motivated and focused.”
David Todd, 13, and his team created a trading company called Batman Brokers.
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But then, the trading floor where she was working Thursday is like none you’ve ever seen before. For the 33rd year, every Grade 8 student at Glashan Public School was in the gym, re-creating a stock market. Bells rang to signal the start and end of trading, there was frantic buying and selling, and lots of paper money and stock certificates circulated.
The students created brokerage firms with clever titles, employee biographies, customer promises, and charts and graphs proving how great they would be at managing your money. “Here’s our business card,” said Lowe, 13, who created Honey Bee Brokers (“We’ll make you money like bees to honey”) with Julie Christenson, 13, and Shuyla Holmes, 12.
“You can invest with us,” she explained. “We’re very honest, and we’ll tell you everything.”
Michele Lorusso, 13, said his mom helped him come up with the “cool” name for Easy Money Brokers. The team decided to invest in Alberta Gas stocks — “cars need gas, and lots of people need cars,” he explained with unassailable logic.
Next door at Leprechaun Brokers (“We will lead you to your pot of gold!”) , Genevieve Packer was counting money while Julie Wechsler recorded prices on a sheet of paper labelled “cash flow.” “We tried to think of a name that had a friendly image,” explained Packer. “And they’re lucky.”
Emma Colby of Leprechaun Brokers team keeps a close eye on the market at Glashan Public School’s stock market day.
David Todd and his buddies in Batman Brokers sported black masks. The name alone could give them a competitive edge. “I’m pretty sure most people are Batman fans,” said Todd.
Stock market day offers students lessons in everything from math to writing, art and history, not to mention boosting skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration, says math teacher Brian Le Sage. Students have such a blast, they might not realize the messages they are soaking up. “If you prepare, and you work hard, and do your homework, and have drive, energy, and creativity, you can get ahead.”
Genevieve Packer counts the money at Leprechaun Brokers.
The market is as realistic as possible, including the frenzied competition, said Le Sage. “The boys love it when you keep score.” Indeed, at one point a lad in a white business shirt could be seen running — and heard — across the floor, rubbing his hands in glee and shouting, “I’m going to make a killing!”
Normally, it’s hard to keep kids focused in the days before Christmas, when “they’re crazy for Cocoa Puffs,” notes Le Sage. “But they’re here, they’re incredibly motivated and focused.”
David Todd, 13, and his team created a trading company called Batman Brokers.
jmiller@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/JacquieAMiller
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