To be honest, this is kind of a slow day--half of the staff isn't here today and I'm pretty much working on the same things that I have been all week. Nobody can come up with anything particularly interesting, so we are all just working on these slightly tedious pieces. I'm currently working on a story about the kids at Gloucester High School who won this huge stock market competition. Apparently, the idea was that schools were given an imaginary $500,000 and were told to invest it in order to accrue the most amount of revenue over 10 weeks. Whoever ended with the most amount of money won cash prizes for their school and individual awards for the highest earners. A group of three girls from AP economics ended up winning the top awards, and Gloucester High School won out overall. I'm having some trouble getting in contact with the director of Business education at the high school because of AP exams this week--economics is an afternoon exam and is TODAY, so she's basically unreachable because the high school doesn't allow people to be paged during exam hours. I'll probably end up talking to her at some point tomorrow. I've already synthesized the press release into article format, but I don't really understand the stock market that well, so I do need the teacher to clarify some things for me. In the mean time, I have this weird article about a SCUBA convention sponsored by some California based company that's happening at Stage Fort Park this weekend.
UPDATE: HERE is the link to my stocks article!
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