When I arrived at Kapptie's room yesterday, the door was locked and no one really knew what was going on. Kapptie came around the corner and said we had to grab as much as we could. With that, he opened the door to a dark room and everyone basically went crazy and dove on the floor to grab all of the candy and paper money they could.
Once it was all taken and everyone had there piles, a video of a stock exchange came on and Mr. Kapptie started writing "stock prices" on the board for all of the different candies (Dum-Dums, Tootsie Rolls, Mr. Goodbars, etc.) Every two minutes he would make an announcement and change the stock prices. For example, he announced that Dum-Dums and Tootsie Rolls merged together and the stock prices were equal for each of them. Every announcement would cause an uproar in the classroom.
I personally didn't grab very much candy and I didn't trade or make very much, but almost everyone was swarming around the room trying to sell there Tootsie Rolls that went down ten dollars or buy a Krackle Bar that was up to 50. Between everyone running around making trades and selling "stocks" and the distracting video playing on the wall, the room was chaos.
By the end of the day, people who had started with $500 worth of money and candy had over $4,000. I think that this simulation was a great way to give us an idea of what it is like inside of the New York Stock Exchange.
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