Armuchee Middle School students are once again the regional winners for the Floyd County Region in the Georgia Stock Market Game competition coordinated by the Georgia Council on Economic Education. Armuchee teams swept the fall and spring editions of the contest.  Bhavik Patel, Tyler Stahl, Easton Ezell, Greg Johnson and Devin Crowley were the winning team of students for the fall.  Grant McCarley, Amy Davis, Ashton Spears and Libby Hendrix were the winning team in the spring.

The students participated in the fall Stock Market Game in Jane Hackney's class. The winning team for the spring was from Mrs. Mitchell and Mr. McLaughlin class.  Teams of students from across the state competed in regional competitions in the Stock Market Game. The students and teachers from Armuchee Middle attended a recognition luncheon at the Georgia Freight Railroad Depot in Atlanta with 600 other teams from across the state. 

In the Stock Market Game competition, each team begins with a hypothetical $100,000 to invest in stocks listed on the major exchanges. The students can buy on margin, sell short and just like real investors they pay commission fees on each transaction.  More than 25,000 students participate in the Georgia Stock Market Game each year, with competitions held in the fall and spring.

Since 1972 the mission of the Georgia Council on Economic Education has been to "help teachers teach economics in the public and independent schools of Georgia ," which supports a vision of "students leaving school prepared for their economic roles as workers, consumers, savers, investors, and citizens in a globally interdependent world." The Council is supported by businesses, foundations, and individuals across the state. Visit the Council's website at www.gcee.org. The Georgia Stock Market Game is made possible by support from the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts, Bank of America, the Georgia Securities Association, INVESCO, Primerica and the Citigroup Foundation, and the Foundation for Investor Education, which coordinates the nationwide Stock Market Game.