Why High Schools Are Building Trading Rooms
Posted on Wed, January 20, 2010
Establishing and promoting unique “centers of excellence” are vital to marketing high schools. Private and Technical high schools are aggressively recruiting the best and brightest students. To get commitment from these honor students they need to have state-of-the-art facilities that attract attention and make a lasting first impression.
For high schools with a strong focus on finance and business a natural fit is to add a financial services lab. Over the past decade 200+ mock trading rooms have been established in colleges and universities across the US and Canada. In the past year we have seen growing interest from the high school level with a handful of early adopters beginning to implement these specialized classrooms to attract new students and better prepare their graduates for the top tier colleges.
If you are a high school looking to investigate this growing trend one place you can start is by downloading our white-paper on university trading labs to learn from some of their experiences.
If you are a high school principal looking to utilize technology and create ”wow factor”, two other articles you may find of interest are Digital Menu Boards for High Schools and Emergency Alerts at the High School Level
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