Submitted photoMembers of the Minnesota State Academy senior investments class include, from left to right, teacher Steven Fuerst, John Fechter IV, Sehuam Bakari and Dawson Moder.
To credit one student as star quarterback, captain of the basketball team and active member of the student body government is impressive in its own right, but senior John Fechter can add one more feather to his cap as he is now known as a stock market savant.
Fechter, a Forest Lake resident attending the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf in Faribault, recently placed fifth out of 584 in a statewide stock market competition sponsored by Wells Fargo.
The competition followed Minnesota high school students for 14 weeks with the premise that if they had $100,000, what would they do? The game mirrored real-world situations, and students were required to use their skills in math, English, economics, and social studies with the hope that they would
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