Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009

The team of Taylor Dalton and Ken Freeman of Lafayette High School won the fall statewide Stock Market Game, which promotes student achievement in math and financial literacy.

Taylor and Ken will receive $300 for their efforts, a trophy and certificates, and will be recognized at a Dec. 8 awards luncheon in Louisville.

In the Stock Market Game, which is offered in the fall and the spring, teams receive a virtual $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds using a real-world Internet simulation. After managing their portfolio for 10 weeks, the Lafayette team wound up with $115,048.

The Stock Market Game is a national program offered by the Foundation for Investor Education; it is offered in this state by the Kentucky Council on Economic Education. This semester, 413 teams with 1,575 students participated – learning about investments, capital formation and the economy.