Stock Market Game
The Stock Market Game™ in Georgia
An experience your students will never forget!
The Stock Market Game is an exciting simulation that gives students in grades 4-12 the opportunity to invest a virtual $100,000 for 10 weeks in real stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. At the end of the 10 weeks, teams with the highest total equity are eligible for a variety of prizes and awards.
The fall program of the Stock Market Game™ runs September 30th thru 4pm Friday, December 6th, 2024. All trades must be entered by 4pm on December, 5th, 2024. Please note that registration is closed for the fall program.
The spring program of the Stock Market Game™ will begin January 21st and conclude on March 28th. Registration for the spring game is open! Click here to register/play the Stock Market Game
To pay your SMG invoice online click here. (ONLY after receiving your invoice!)
About the Stock Market Game™
Economic education is about more than financial literacy. It’s also about the larger economic forces that impact everyone’s financial circumstances in the present and future. With equity markets as the model, the Stock Market Game™ is designed to give Georgia teachers a tool for showing students how scarcity, trade, opportunity cost, voluntary exchange, price incentive, specialization, productivity, and many other economic concepts play out in financial institutions they hear about in the news almost daily. Unlike real equity markets, the Stock Market Game™ offers students a safe and pain-free place to learn that the lessons of market economics can sometimes be costly.
To make the best use of the Stock Market Game as an educational tool in the classroom, GCEE requires all teachers to attend Stock Market Game Advisor Training. You can register for a workshop here.
Other important things to know about the Stock Market Game
Teams of 3-5 students are given a hypothetical portfolio of $100,000 that they invest over a 10-week period. The team from each public school district or independent school geographic region with the highest portfolio value at the end of the 10-week trading session wins.
GCEE coordinates the Stock Market Game for the state of Georgia. The Stock Market Game is operated nationally by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Foundation for Investor Education.
There is a $10 registration fee for each team. Team registrations will be processed through SIFMA. Teachers will be emailed a password and team ID three weeks before the start of the program. After GCEE receives your registration information from SIFMA, you will be invoiced for the $10 team fee.
Exciting news! Stock Market Game Prize Structure has been redesigned to be more expansive and rewarding for teachers. Prizes are awarded accordingly:
- State Winner- $500 Amazon gift card for the teacher of winning team, trophy, invitation to the Fox Theatre award luncheon, pennant
- Congressional District Winners- In each congressional district, GCEE will recognize the top elementary, middle, and high school team with an invitation to the Fox Theatre award luncheon, pennant, and exclusive stock market game t-shirts
- School District (Regional) Winners- certificates & stock market game t-shirts
- Teacher Competition Winner- $400 Amazon gift card (teacher winner must have active student teams & cannot also be the state winner)
- Rural Division Winner- $400 Amazon gift card for the teacher of winning student team
- New Teacher Division Winner- $400 Amazon gift card for the teacher of winning student team (eligible only to teachers playing for the first time)
- Randomly Selected Winners- Classroom gift boxes awarded each week to randomly selected teachers. All Stock Market Game advisors (teachers) are eligible to win
- Refer A Teacher Program- Earn a $50 Amazon gift card for referring a teacher that registers student teams and completes a 10-week competition (limit one gift card per teacher)
Find out more about the Stock Market Game here.
Teaching the Game
How do I teach the Stock Market Game™?
The Stock Market Game™ is used by teachers across Georgia and the U.S. to demonstrate how the private enterprise system works. The Stock Market Game™ shows students how the laws of economics unfold in the real world. Unlike real equity markets, the Stock Market Game™ offers students a safe and pain-free place to learn that the lessons of market economics can sometimes be costly.
Stock Market Game FAQs
The Basics
What is the Stock Market Game™?
The Stock Market Game™ is an interactive, interdisciplinary educational program you can use to help students learn about economics, finance and the American economic system. During the 10-week simulation, teams of up to five students manage a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio and invest in stocks found on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.
The program is offered twice each year in Georgia, every spring and fall.
What are the prizes?
Teams are ranked based on their performance and have the opportunity to win some of the great prizes below:
- Overall State Winner- The #1 ranked team statewide will receive a $150 Amazon gift card for each student winner + their teacher.The winning team will also receive an invitation to the annual SMG Awards Luncheon at the Fox Theatre, a trophy, and a banner.
- Grade Level State Winner- The top elementary, middle, and high school teams in the state will receive a $100 Amazon gift card for each student winner + their teacher. The winning teams will also receive invitations to the annual SMG Awards Luncheon at the Fox Theatre, a trophy, and a pennant. (Prizes not eligible for the overall state winning team).
- Congressional District (Regional) Winners- In each congressional district, GCEE will recognize the top elementary, middle, and high school team with an invitation to the annual SMG Awards Luncheon at the Fox Theatre, pennant, certificate, and medals.
- School District Winners- Certificates & medals for each student winner.
- Teacher Competition Winner- $100 Amazon gift card (teacher winner must have active student teams & cannot also be the state winner).
- Rural Division Winner- $75 Amazon gift card for each student winner + their teacher.
- New Teacher Division Winner- $75 Amazon gift card for each student winner + their teacher. (Eligible only to teachers playing SMG for the first time).
- Randomly Selected Winners- Classroom gift boxes awarded each week to randomly selected teachers. All Stock Market Game teacher participants are eligible to win.
- Refer A Teacher Program- $50 Amazon gift card for referring a teacher who has never played SMG before. To be eligible, the new teacher must register student teams and complete a 10-week competition (Limit one gift card per referring teacher per semester).
*Important note: Teams may range from 1-5 students. No more than 5 students are permitted on a team.