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Schools Throughout Illinois are Looking for Stock Market Game Sponsors 

The Stock Market Game (SMG) introduces young people to saving and investing through a simulation of the stock market by giving them the opportunity to trade and manage their own virtual $100,000 investment portfolio. The program equips students with valuable academic and life skills such as math, economics and personal finance and provides greater awareness of current events and global news. The IBA is honored to be the official licensee of the SMG in the state of Illinois. For a nominal fee (typically just $500 per school), Illinois banks can sponsor their local schools in this important program. For more information, connect with the IBA's Financial Literacy Director.

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What is The Stock Market Game?

The Stock Market Game explores the fundamentals of personal finance and investing, while practicing content and skills in math, English language arts, economics, social studies, and other subjects. Students build and manage an investment portfolio in a real-world, dynamic marketplace, analyze and make decisions, explore the consequences of their choices, and seek new ways to strategize for success.

  • A media-blended project-based learning simulation in which student teams work collaboratively to invest a $100,000 virtual cash account in stocks, mutual funds and bonds.
  • A competition between grade 4-12 student teams by region and grade level.
  • A robust teacher resource center with lessons, activities and assessments, searchable by subject and grade level and aligned to Illinois and national Common Core Standards.

How it works

With The Stock Market Game™ program, students learn core competencies, critical thinking skills and teamwork while engaging your students in real world applications. In building a portfolio, students research, evaluate and make decisions based upon their research. Teams trade equities, earn interest on cash balances, and pay commission on all trades. To better understand stock and overall market performance, they need to know how the economy works, and to calculate their returns they need to do math. Learning is a natural part of the experience.

How Illinois Bankers can help

Illinois banks are encouraged to bring The Stock Market GameTM to their local school districts and partner with them to sponsor the program at no cost to the school.

  • Contact your local school to see if they participate and, if they do not, connect them with the SMG  site to register.
  • Offer to sponsor your local school's teams (typically as little as $500 per school).
  • Volunteer to help be a mentor or facilitator.
  • Volunteer/Register to be a judge for the InvestWrite competition, a highly-successful extension of the SMG program designed to help students sharpen critical thinking skills as they compose essays on investment-related topics. 
  • Share your knowledge and expertise with participating classrooms through SIFMA's Invest It Forward program.

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