Wharton Global Youth Program

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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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News & Articles

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.

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Future of the Business World Podcast

Designing for Focus: A Wharton Youth Launches a New Line of Fidget Jewelry

What if a simple classroom habit that many students share — fidgeting — sparked a real business idea? In this episode of Future of the Business World, Wharton Global Youth speaks with Roxanne Goldman, a 16-year-old entrepreneur who turned her personal experience with ADHD into Stim Stacked, a jewelry brand...
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Global Youth News

Wharton Global Youth Program Introduces a New Three-day Learning Sprint in Dubai

A priority this year for the Wharton Global Youth Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: keep innovating and improving on the delivery of robust business education programs for high school students. The Global Youth team flipped the calendar year and pursued this goal in earnest with...
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Global Youth News

A Winning Season: Thousands of Teams, Bigger Stakes, and the Top 50 2026 Wharton Investment Competition Teams Revealed

If investing were a sport, let’s just say it has been quite a season so far for the 2025-2026 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition. Led by this year's client Connor Barwin (WG’23), former NFL star and founder of Make the World Better (MTWB) foundation, Wharton Global Youth’s annual financial...

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.

WATCH THE GLOBAL YOUTH SUMMER OVERVIEW

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Our Policies

Our policies help ensure that students and participants engage responsibly with AI technology and contribute to a safe, educational online community.

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Badges, Certificates, Transcripts & More

How will you highlight your Wharton Global Youth learning experience? Check out the ways you can show the world how you spent your time with us.