Kentucky EconomicsChallenge

sponsored by

National Council on Economic Education 
Goldman Sacs Foundation
Sullivan University
Enter the Economics Challenge Website
to register your class and for students to take the quiz		 Online Quiz Standings

The Kentucky Council on Economic Education (KCEE) Economics Challenge is a part of the nationwide competition in economics, sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) and Goldman/Sachs. The NCEE/Goldman Sachs Foundation National Economics Challenge provides the excitement of an athletic competition to academic excellence. In each competition teams of students answer questions on microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. Register your Teams today!

Competition is open to any high school students taking an economics course or taking economics as part of a social studies, business, or survey course in Fall or Spring 2007-08.  

Online Economics Challenge Quiz Competitions

The Online Economics Challenges are

  • FREE!

  • Online quizzes open from December 15, 2007 through March 14, 2008 for your Fall and/or Spring semester high school students! 

  • EASY!  30 minutes..30 questions! 

  • And it's a team competition for 3-4 students per team!

  • Two divisions - Adam Smith and David Ricardo (see specifics below)

  • Be sure to complete the Student Registration forms and Team Coach form below:  (note: parent signatures are NOT required for online participants.) These need to be submitted to KCEE @ 11601 Bluegrass Parkway, Louisville, KY 40299 by March 20, 2008.

  • Teachers receive a $50 gift certificate for having 5 or more teams participate and completing the registration forms for all online participants

  • Teachers will receive their own team scores.  ONLY the top 10 teams in each division will be posted each week on the website, with team name, school name, teacher name and scores. The top teams as of the end of the school day on March 14 will be the winners.

WINNERS!  The first place team members in each online competitions and their teacher receive a $25 gift card and will compete in the KCEE Economics Challenge Quiz Bowl for more prizes! (see info below)

 Specific Competition Details

 

EconomicsChallenge
Quiz Bowl

  March 20, 2008   10-2pm
hosted by Sullivan University, Louisville, KY

The top 4 teams in each division of the David Ricardo and Adam Smith Online Challenges will be invited to compete on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at Sullivan University from 10-2pm to determine state champions in each division. (Teams can be re-constituted, but team members must have participated in the online Challenge.) 

The Quiz Bowl!  Winning teams can be reconstituted for the State and Regional competition. There must be 4 students on each team..  There will be play-offs of winning teams to determine the state champion.  A maximum of 30 questions will be asked in each quiz bowl.

Awards/Fun/Food!  The day will be fun!  Winning team members will represent Kentucky in the ONLINE regional competition in April, and maybe the nationals in New York City in May!

Prizes - $100 gift cards for first place team members and $25 gift cards for second place team members in each division.  Plus the first place team will compete ONLINE in a regional Competition in their division in April, then possibly on to National Competition in New York in May!  All participants will receive Economics Challenge t-shirts. (Teachers of winning teams can receive $100 stipend or sub pay to bring their winning team(s) to the Economics Challenge Quiz Bowl.)

 Fun for everyone – and easy to participate! 

                      Thanks to our  Economics Challenge Sponsors: 

                                                        Norton Healthcare
                                          Sullivan University
                                          National Council on Economic Education
                                          Goldman Sachs Foundation