RHHS ARL Academy of Finance Team Wins the Stock Market Game

Wed, 05/17/2017 - 1:22pm

An ARL Academy of Finance RHHS team, consisting of  Laurence Crandon, Sanket Shah, Max Carlson and Connor McCullough won the year-long regional Stock Market Game (#1 out of 247 teams in the region). Each of the 247 teams in the region was given a paper portfolio to invest $100,000.00.  The team with the highest return wins.  The team's portfolio, named Harambee (Swahili word for 'all pull together/unity"), had an 18% return based on the securities they selected; their top stock picks, Nvidia and Boeing, grew by 46% and 33% respectively.     

RHHS students will be celebrated on May 17, at Towson University at the Maryland Council on Economic Education Student Achievement Awards Luncheon.

Laurence Crandon also attended the county-wide Alpha Achievers Harambee Conference last month, representing RHHS, and won 1st place in the business case competition.  Here is a link to a tweet with his presentation: https://twitter.com/AlphaAchievers1/status/846748174199013376/video/1