Hawks are stock market champs

Hawk team is 1st in state, 3rd in nation

  • This team of Hampton Hawks won the Nebraska Stock Market Challenge, sponsored by Junior Achievement, and took third in the nationals earlier this month. From left are Shae Kingery, Sophia Schulze, Jacob Wishman and Kennedy McCullough.
    This team of Hampton Hawks won the Nebraska Stock Market Challenge, sponsored by Junior Achievement, and took third in the nationals earlier this month. From left are Shae Kingery, Sophia Schulze, Jacob Wishman and Kennedy McCullough.

    Four Hampton Hawks high schoolers surprised their business teacher and perhaps even themselves recently when they won the state competition in Junior Achievement’s annual Stock Market Challenge. And they continued their winning ways by taking fourth place in the national contest on May 10. Hampton business teacher Jeremy Jones formed two teams from the nine students in this year’s Intro to Bu…