National Junior Honor Society

Advisor: Miss Stratton

The St. Luke Catholic School Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society is a duly chartered and affiliated chapter of this prestigious national organization. Membership is open to those students who meet the required standards in five areas of evaluation: scholarship, leadership, service, character, and citizenship. Students are selected for membership by majority vote of a five-member principal-appointed faculty council, which bestows this honor upon qualified students on behalf of the faculty of our school each spring.

The Stock Market Game

The objective of the SMG program is to introduce its participants to the fundamentals of investing. Each fall the middle school students are divided into two teams for each grade.  They choose a team leader and are given $100,000 in virtual money that may invest as they see fit in the stock market.  Through the SMG they buy and sell stocks and get a day to day tracking of their investments.  Each week in the Hartford Courant they list the top 10 teams by grade levels.  At the end of the six weeks the top teams in Connecticut are invited to an awards ceremony at the Hartford Courant and receive prizes for their work.  A congratulatory ad is put in the newspaper also at the end of six weeks for the top winning schools.