This program is designed to give pre-collegiate students an overview of the world of finance and investment decisions. What are a firm’s financial goals and how do they make decisions to maximize shareholders’ wealth? It examines financial concepts and analytical techniques as well as financial performance.

This course will also introduce the basic financial principles necessary to understand the role of the stock market in our economy and in our personal lives. What role does the stock market play and how does it function?

Participants assume the role of money managers in order to gain an understanding of financial markets as they manage their own portfolio of stocks in a session-long stock market simulation game. Concepts introduced in the lectures are incorporated into the simulation game as students learn to interpret accounting statements and understand investment theory and strategy.

About the Instructor
Gina Farrell holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hofstra University as well as a Master of Business Administration in Health Administration from City University of New York Baruch College/Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She spent most of her professional career in management positions in hospital and private practice settings. She decided to pursue a teaching career and returned to Hofstra to complete her C.A.S. in Business Education. She is currently a Business Education teacher at Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK HS and a Board Member for Long Island Business Teachers Association. She strives to incorporate the professional experiences she has had in her early career into her classroom to prepare students to be college and career ready.

There is an additional fee for transportation for one-week precollegiate camps.