Junior Achievement presents this on-line simulation game for students interested in business and entrepreneurship. The simulation permits students to design a budget for their business that includes setting the unit price, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development costs, capital investment level, and charitable giving. Players can consult with the "virtual vice-presidents" of the company in making their decisions and can play against the computer or against other teams on-line. The site also indicates that there is a school-based version of the simulation available from local Junior Achievement offices, including lesson plans and other teacher resources. Overall, the simulation is fairly formulaic and the interface is dated compared to current video games your students may play. The concepts might be useful, though, even if students may find the process of applying them through this simulation unexciting.

To fully use this site, you must register. Registration requires your name and email address. Check with your administrator about allowing the students to register for this site using their own names. You may wish to set up a class registration instead of entering true data into the registration site. Another option is to create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service. This site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.

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