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Wharton Global High School Investment Competition
The Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is a free, experiential investment challenge for high school students (9th to 12th grade) and teachers. Students work in teams of four to seven, guided by a teacher as their advisor, and have access to an online stock market simulator. Together, they learn about strategy-building, teamwork, communication, risk, diversification, company and industry analysis, and many other aspects of investing.
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Wharton Global Youth produces original content introducing high school students and educators to the broad scope of business and finance education. Explore hundreds of educational articles featuring Wharton analysis, discover enterprising teen entrepreneurs on our monthly Future of the Business World Podcast, and more.
BAM Investing from Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, Wins the 2025 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition
The Wharton School’s legendary competitive spirit was popping with high school energy on Saturday, April 26, 2025. While track-and-field athletes from across the country descended on the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the annual Penn Relays, 64 future financiers from the U.S., India and Canada convened a...
Lucio Hightower-Rojas Wants to Solve Students’ Scholarship Struggles
As a high school senior, Lucio Hightower-Rojas (pictured above) is no stranger to tests, quizzes, essays and research. After all, he’s spent countless hours in his Los Angeles, California, high school putting quality time into all of the work. But when he began a year or so ago to search...
Author John Green Stops By the Wharton School to Talk about Life, Creativity and Compassion
What’s your favorite novel by author and YouTuber John Green? Looking for Alaska? Turtles All the Way Down? An Abundance of Katherines? Or maybe The Fault in Our Stars, one of the best-selling books ever? Green’s books, with more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, often feature young adult...
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