{"id":216806,"date":"2026-06-11T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216806\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:03:08","slug":"bchs-students-virtual-investment-returns-earn-4th-place-nys-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/216806\/","title":{"rendered":"BCHS students&#8217; virtual investment returns earn 4th place NYS finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8456-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"trio of students\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68946\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to BCHS Stock Market Club members Bhargava Janga, Arnav Sharma, and Steven Calderon (pictured above, left to right) for ringing up an amazing 92% return on their virtual portfolio this spring. The investing team finished fourth in New York State in the Stock Market Game.<\/p>\n<p>The Stock Market Game is a competitive online simulation designed to help students learn about economics, investing, and personal finance. Managed nationally by the SIFMA Foundation, it allows teams of students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, competing against other school teams to grow their virtual portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congratulations to BCHS Stock Market Club members Bhargava Janga, Arnav Sharma, and Steven Calderon (pictured above, left to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-216806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}