After purchasing 198 shares of Arbuckle’s Snacks, 11-year-old Joey Welch immediately turned around and sold his stock for a small profit.
“Right now I’m trying to get my profit to go up,” he said, quickly alternating between the “buy” and “sell” buttons on a touch-screen computer. “I’m just trying to make as much money as I can.”
Joey, a fifth-grader at Clifton Hills Elementary School, beefed up his stock portfolio today at “Moneyville,” a temporary exhibit at the Creative Discovery Museum meant to teach young students about the history of currency, balancing a budget and spotting counterfeit bills.
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Staff Photo by Brett Clark -- Timothy Byrd, 11, center, looks at a box that represents one million dollar bills with teachers Rondi Garner, left, and Theresa Custer, right, from Clifton Hills Elementary School at the Creative Discovery Museum today. They were visiting the Moneyville exhibit that will be at the museum for four months.
Officials at the Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union, one of the sponsors of the temporary exhibit, decided to give away their 100 free tickets to students and teachers at Clifton Hills and Brown Academy.
First Tennessee Bank, First Volunteer Bank, Bank of America and SunTrust Bank also sponsored Moneyville.
For complete coverage, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Kelli Gauthier covers K-12 education in Hamilton County for the Times Free Press. She started at the paper as an intern in 2006, crisscrossing the region writing feature stories from Pikeville, Tenn., to Lafayette, Ga. She also covered crime and courts before taking over the education beat in 2007. A native of Frederick, Md., Kelli came south to attend Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. Before newspapers, ...
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