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Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger

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Ruppersberger Helps Local Students Invest Hypothetical $100,000

Mar 12, 2018
Press Release

(Washington, DC) – Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger today visited with local high school students investing a hypothetical $100,000 in the stock market as part of a national competition promoting financial education.

 

The students at Dulaney High School in Maryland’s Second District are competing in the Stock Market Game™ Capitol Hill Challenge (CHC), a 14-week financial education competition that pairs members of Congress with public schools in every Congressional district nationwide to teach middle and high school students about saving, investing, and government. Dulaney High has two teams currently in the top 13 and seven teams ranked in the top 200 out of 2,500 teams nation-wide.

“It is absolutely critical for students to learn as early as possible how to be smart with money,” Congressman Ruppersberger said. “I couldn’t be more impressed with how serious the students at Dulaney are taking this competition, which is a fun and exciting way to learn the importance of saving and investing. I want to congratulate all schools that are supporting this project.”

The competition uses the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation’s curriculum-based Stock Market Game™, a program to help students develop a better understanding of fiscal policymaking, the role of the capital markets, and global economic trends. The program is proven to raise student scores on tests of mathematics, economics and financial knowledge and to improve students’ personal financial behavior.

Students from Randallstown High School, also located in the Second District, are also competing.

Since the Capitol Hill Challenge began in 2004, the program has made more than 4,100 matches of U.S. representatives and senators with schools, reaching more than 115,000 students. Middle and high school students from all 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia are participating in this year’s competition. The top 10 teams will be recognized at an awards reception in Washington, D.C., in June.