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Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, 974-7642/974-7643	Air Date: May 6, 1998

Stock market game hits Hilo   Wall Street wannabes take note! The Stock Market Game has arrived. The Stock Market Game is an interactive simulation played on the Internet where students manage an imaginary $100,000 portfolio of stocks over a ten-week period. Teams from schools on Oahu and the Big Island competed for ten weeks last fall for a multi-media computer. Winners of the elementary-intermediate division included Gary Yanagi's class from Waiakea Elementary. For the high school division it was Kelly Uyeda's history class at Waiakea High. UH Hilo's Scott Thompson's Econ 201 class got top honors in the post-secondary division. Nationwide more than 700,000 students are involved in the game in a given semester. It's unique because it can be used to teach a broad spectrum of curricula ranging from accounting, to finance and social studies to mathematics. This is the University Report, I'm Tracy Orillo Donovan.

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