A $1,500 scholarship for a five-day summer program at the New York Stock Exchange designed to:

• Provide educators with a thorough understanding of the capital-raising process and the New York Stock Exchange trading platforms.
• Increase teacher ability to include the stock market across curriculum disciplines.
• Provide supporting materials and skills for classroom instructions.

Teachers also have an on-site visit to the trading floor, where they interface with market professionals.

The Workshop is held each summer at the NYSE from 8:30am-4:30pm. (Program dates become available in April.) Typically, the program is held at multiple times: during the last week in June, three weeks in July, and one in early August.

Details on the Workshop are available here.

The NYSE provides the workshop materials, a daily continental breakfast and a luncheon buffet.

The teacher is responsible for  the $150 registration fee, transportation, hotel and dinner expenses and may use the scholarship for these purposes. Discounted hotel rates are provided to participants.

Application Requirements for Scholarship

Complete a project to help promote and expand the Stock Market Game™ Program in your school and/or school division. Examples: offer a Stock Market Game™ workshop to teachers in your county or write an article for the newspaper.

Application Deadlines

Teachers participating in the Fall SMG - December 4, 2009

Teachers participating in the Spring  or Year- Long SMG - April 9, 2010 

Email completed application form to smg@vcu.edu

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