The Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics honored young stock investors and their network of supporting teachers and family members at the first remote Stock Market Game (SMG) awards reception on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020.

Sponsored by the Securities Industry and the Financial Markets Association, the SMG is made available to schools across the state of Delaware by the CEEE. Since 1983, the CEEE has empowered students from elementary through high school to build investment portfolios and maximize earnings through the SMG. In this 10-week simulative experience, students are granted a hypothetical $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

This year’s SMG reception, led by the CEEE’s Delaware Stock Market Game Coordinator Marion Jacobs, was previously scheduled to be held in the spring of 2020, but after being postponed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, winners from the spring SMG and InvestWrite competitions were recognized along with InvestWrite winners from the fall of 2019 via Zoom.

Jacobs, along with Director of the CEEE Carlos Asarta, concluded the remote reception by thanking all of the young participants, their teachers, families and the Investor Protection Unit for making this year’s SMG possible, especially through the rocky era of COVID-19.

For further information, please visit: https://lerner.udel.edu/seeing-opportunity/the-stock-market-game-awards-go-virtual/