Brooklyn Tech students launch investing club with finance video game

A student at Brooklyn Technical High School wanted to start a virtual investing club where students would pick a basket of stocks, buy, sell and trade to see how their portfolios did over time. In order to get them interested, though, she first trained them in finance in a school club, according to Time Warner Cable News, where her fellow students played Gen I Revolution, an online videogame about finance from the Council for Economic Education.

It’s a good sign for the game if students were willing to play it outside of class. They got through all of its missions. Some of the mission titles are:

• Mission 1 – Building Wealth Over the Long Term
• Mission 2 – Investing in Human Capital: Job Choice
• Mission 6 – Risk and Return
• Mission 7 – Alternative Financial Institutions
• Mission 8 – Stocks
• Mission 11 – Researching Companies

With that done, the club’s organizer, Lihi Yusufov, a junior at the high school, hopes to finally get her friends at school building virtual portfolios.

Here’s an intro to the game: