A team of fourth-grade students from Saddle Rock School placed third overall out of 58 Long Island elementary teams in the Stock Market Game.
With an initial virtual investment of $100,000, teammates Quentin Karunungan, Aiden Li, Damien Zheng, and Richard Zheng increased their virtual portfolio by almost $16,000 over the two-month challenge.
The Stock Market Game, a program of the SIFMA Foundation, is a nationwide online competition utilized by educators to demonstrate the fundamentals of economics and investing.
Students are provided virtual money that they invest in a simulated stock market and their virtual portfolios rise and fall based on how those stocks perform in the actual market.
Saddle Rock offers the Stock Market Game through a weekly before-school enrichment program led by teacher Evan Chen and school psychologist Anthony Iacovelli.