The Wharton Global Youth Program mobilizes the extensive opportunities of the Wharton academic community to educate and inspire pre-collegiate students to explore business practices, analyze the world’s complex challenges, and take the first steps in becoming leaders who will transform the global economy.
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 six, 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.
Competitive Tennis Powers a Business Mindset
In this episode of Future of the Business World, Yijia Chen, co-grand prize winner of the Summer 2025 Comment & Win Competition, shares how her journey as a provincial-level tennis player has shaped her entrepreneurial mindset, intellectual curiosity, and approach to personal branding. Trained at the Rafa Nadal Academy, Yijia reflects...
Business and Creativity: Turning Memories into Coloring Books
This month, Wharton Global Youth is getting creative with AI and crayons. Coloring books are an essential part of childhood, and what happens when a young entrepreneur reimagines them using cutting-edge technology? In this episode of Future of the Business World, we meet Evan Perez, a high school student from Rhode...
Talking Finance and Study Habits During a Day Trip to the Wharton School
The sun was shining, and I-95 traffic was manageable on October 3, 2025, making it an ideal time for a road trip to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. Some 40 students from Urban Assembly Maker Academy in Lower Manhattan and KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy...
Our annual report highlights the Wharton Global Youth team’s achievements in a year’s time. Discover Global Youth’s mission-driven work, partnerships, markets and vision as we deliver quality business-education opportunities to high school students and educators.
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