Students Make Internet Their Stock in Trade
Wall Street has given lots of people plenty to celebrate the last few weeks. A Dow Jones industrial average at stratospheric levels. Twelve 'record closes in 16 sessionsÛÓa bull istock.market that makes SpainÛªs running of the bulls look like a side-. walk stroll.</br></br>But few investors could feel as - flush as three teenagers from Montgomery County, whose one-week profits include three $25,000 college scholarships for producing ah innovative stock-market simulation site on the World Wide Web.</br></br>The scene Monday night at a Washington hotel was as lively as a New York trading floor as Derek Goldstein, Michael Schulman and Jason Yang were awarded the grand prize in a national Internet competition.</br></br>The Churchill High School students bested more than 1,000 teamsÛÓsome as young as seventh gradeÛÓthat designed Web pages for ThinkQuest, a contest sponsored See CHURCHILL, C5, CoL 6</br></br>Clockwise from top, Churchill High teacher Gary Smith and students Jason tlj Yang, Derek Goldstein and Michael Schulman. The teenagers won $25,000-4^ scholarships for their stock-market simulation site on the Web.