Twenty-seven Bellefontaine High School business students recently participated in the Mad River Region Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge competition at the Madison-Champaign Educational Service Center in Urbana.
BHS teams earned the top three spots at the Stock Market Challenge, with the first-place team of Curtis “CJ” Butler, Cayleb Overmann and Jack Wilson qualifying for the JA Future Bound Summit in Atlanta during June to compete against teams from across the country.
Second place went to BHS team members Jamison Clement, Landen Cooper, Sebastian Estepa, and Beckham Harman.
Finally, third-place honors went to Grady Feasel, Liam Naumann, Myles Sellars and Anthony Sylvia.
Students were placed on teams, set up stock portfolios, reviewed stock lists, analyzed economic market conditions, monitored the exchange board, and initiated stock trades on a simulated stock market floor.
At the close of the stock market simulation, the three teams with the highest portfolio value placed in the competition with the top team
The Bellefontaine High School business teachers/advisers are Yvette Hunsicker, Patricia St. Clair and Henry Stolly.
