Nike Stock Market Project

Mr.Wilkinson Assigned us (his Caledonia Careers Class) a project called the ‘Stock Market’ Project. He gave us each $5,000 (Fake of course) to buy stocks (also fake but we still used the real numbers) and to see how much we could make from spending as much of the fake $5,000 as we could. We made a spreadsheet to keep track of the money we earned for each stock we bought and we had to keep track of it every week. We bought a minimum of four stocks each to keep track of. We all had to see whether we lost a lot of money, or gained a lot of money. Mr.Wilkinson has told us that he will not mark us down if we lose money. (Though he will definitely not giving us REAL money to buy stocks with!) For my Stock Market Project I bought stocks from Google, …show more content…
A little about Nike is the headquarters are in Beaverton, Oregon, their chief executive officer is Mark Parker, and they have been in business for 51 years. Nike makes clothes, and shoes( typically sports clothes and shoes). The idea of Nike came to Phil Knight while he was writing a paper for college though it was originally going to be called blue ribbon sports. Nike makes its sneakers in the United States of America. Apple’s headquarters are in Cupertino, California. The chief executive officer is Tim Cook and Apple makes multiple electronics including Apple Watch, Laptops, iphones, and other electronics, apple also launched a clothing line 1986. Apple made more in the first quarter of 2014 than google, facebook, and amazon combined. It has about twice as much cash as the US treasury and is more valuable than the entire russian stock market. Apple is called Apple because Steve Jobs loved the fruit. It is also very hard to be employed at apple. It is more likely to be accepted into Harvard than to get a job at Apple. Walmarts headquarters is in Bentonville, Arizona. They have been in business for about 53 years now and their chief executive officer is C. Douglas Mcmillon. They are a discount department store. If Walmart were a country they would be the 26th largest economy in the world. Walmart is the most frequent search on GPSs. 90% of all Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart. In 2014, …show more content…
I liked deciding what companies I wanted to buy stocks from. It was cool watching how much money I made (or lost) and to see what cool things you can do with google sheets. I didn’t really understand what it was that we were learning though. Were we just learning how to buy stocks? Maybe it was what the stock market is? I just don’t see what the point was in doing the stock market project was. Other than that though, I definitely enjoyed doing the stock market project and I hope that if you ever try the stock market project, you enjoy it as much as I