{"id":161,"date":"2012-02-21T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-02-21T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:09:24","slug":"s3-pupils-are-a-hit-on-the-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/2012\/02\/21\/s3-pupils-are-a-hit-on-the-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"S3 pupils are a hit on the stock market!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/files\/2012\/02\/image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-163\" title=\"stockmarket1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/files\/2012\/02\/image004-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Five students in S3 proved that trading in the Stock Market is no easy task!\u00a0 Business Management students Amy, Jack, Lauren, Amy, and Ahmed took part in the annual Stock Market Challenge held at the Mitchell Library on Thursday 26 January.\u00a0 Competing against 27 other schools the team were tasked with investing over \u00a320,000 in a virtual stock market with the aim of maximising their portfolio by the end of trading.\u00a0As soon as the familiar stock market bell rang the team had limited time to respond to breaking news bulletins and decide whether to buy or sell their shares! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/files\/2012\/02\/image002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/files\/2012\/02\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-164\" title=\"stockmarket2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/files\/2012\/02\/image002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Although the team did not take the top prize they were met with success, winning the prize for best Media Analysis.\u00a0 Congratulations to the team on their success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five students in S3 proved that trading in the Stock Market is no easy task!\u00a0 Business Management students Amy, Jack, Lauren, Amy, and Ahmed took part in the annual Stock Market Challenge held at the Mitchell Library on Thursday 26 January.\u00a0 Competing against 27 other schools the team were tasked with investing over \u00a320,000 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/2012\/02\/21\/s3-pupils-are-a-hit-on-the-stock-market\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S3 pupils are a hit on the stock market!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentBICT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}