LHS Futures Are Looking up

The Stock Market Game is over and Luverne’s ten teams collectively finished in 6^th place. Not too shabby for our first time in the competition. The highlight is that we were actually in 1^st place going into the last week of competition. This was great considering we were once in last place. It was exciting to have students come to class excited about market changes. Some students even downloaded an app for the stock ticker tape to scroll across their cell phones for market updates while traveling to ball games. It was not uncommon to hear a shout from the back of the bus saying, “Mr. Williams, Apple closed up today at $595 but Wal-Mart is down again.” We even incorporated this language into Kid’s College for the 8^th grade participants. Their market was up or down depending on their performance in math and reading. This was a fun project based learning activity.

Please be sure to congratulate these students when they come to your class and let them know how proud we are of them and their 6^th place finish. Following are the ten teams and their performance:

                                                                                                            Regional

Team ID        Team Members                               LHS Rank     Rank              Total Equity

A246                C. Worthington, S Adams,                    1                       41 of 286           $112, 331.95

                        B. Odum, J. Wilson,

                        B. Townsend

A247                 Kamron Womack                                2                      43 of 286           $112, 265.23                   

                        D. Boyd, T. Byrd, J. Chambers

                        L. Defee, M. Hansell, H. Helms

                        M. Johnson, Q. McMillian

                        T. Pouncey, J. Raybon, C. Steele

                        S. Upshaw,

A253                 Max McDougald                                   3                     49 of 286           $111, 710.11

                        M. Smith, L. Sanders

                        Demarcus Oliver

A252                 Kelly Morgan                                       4                      62 of 286           $109, 883.95

                        B. Taylor, D. Knott

                        C. Rocha, K. Washington

A248                 D. Thomas, K. Cole,                             5                      84 of 286           $105, 226.12

                        E. Stroud, D. Gibson

                        A. McLeod

A249                 Amber McFarland                                6                      40 of 286           $104, 986.39

                        N. Person, G. Jeffcoat

                        D. Brantley

A244                 Shaye Walker                                      7                      90 of 286           $104, 472.42

                        J. Sims, D. Phillips

                        E. Bradley, D. Jones

A251                 Ny’Keith Harris                                      8                     112 of 286          $101, 747.05

                        J. Sasser, N. Debose,

                        C. Woo, B. Wilson                               

A245                 Ellise Pinckard

                        M. Pinckney, D. Marsh                           9                      134of 286           $100, 759.58

                        A. Gorey,

A250                 Zoe Bloodsworth                                 10                    176 of 286           $100,164.28

A.      Odum, A. Bryant

L. Barber

Bob Williams