Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Only in New York: The Most Badass High School In Brooklyn Has Its Very Own Trading Floor




There's a trading floor in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and although no real trades go through the room, it's just as high-tech and impressive.

According to the BusinessInsider report the "floor" in question is actually a classroom in the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance high school, equipped with a real-time stock ticker, touchscreen LCD monitors to track stocks and computer modules to help students acclimate to the business and finance-focused curriculum of the school.
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The academy's special focus on business requires that students take classes like Introduction to Finance, Entrepreneurship and Accounting, and participate in an internship program. Events like a career day with Deloitte and a speakers' series with guests from the business profession are also the norm at the academy. The school is currently in its third year and plans on graduating its first cohort of seniors next year.....


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brooklyn-academy-of-global-finance-trading-floor-2012-5#ixzz1wNLE3z6A

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