Tell Another Teacher! - Go to the New York Stock Exchange!
What is Tell Another Teacher?
The Tell Another Teacher program rewards past SMG teachers for
sharing the SMG with 
teachers who have previously never used the program. Now, veteran* teachers who recruit new* teachers will be eligible
for a trip to New York!
On April 1, 2009, a drawing will be held of all eligible teachers who recruited teachers to use the SMG Program. The winning teacher will receive a $750 scholarship to the New York Stock Exchange's "Teachers' Workshop" offered five different weeks throughout the summer months. The winning teacher will be able to select the session that best fits their summer schedule.
For every new SMG teacher recruited, the veteran SMG teacher will receive one entry into a drawing for the Teachers' Workshop. For example, if a veteran SMG teacher recruits three new teachers into the SMG program during the 2008-2009 school year, they would receive three entries into the drawing!
In order to verify the new teacher can be attributed to the recruitment of a veteran SMG teacher, the veteran must email ICEE with the name and school email address of the new teacher.
Once the winning veteran SMG teacher has been selected, the new (eligible) SMG teachers who were recruited by that veteran will each receive Borders gift cards!
ICEE reserves the right to cancel this award if the minimum number of qualifying teachers is not met.
Eligibility
- * A Veteran SMG Teacher is any teacher who participated in the SMG program with student teams from the 2004-2005 school year to present.
- * A New SMG Teacher is any teacher who has never used the SMG with student teams or any teacher who did not used the SMG with student teams from the 2004-2005 school to present. A New SMG Teacher during the Fall 2008 session becomes a Veteran Teacher for Spring 2009 and is then eligible for the Tell Another Teacher reward as a Veteran.
- Each veteran teacher earns one chance in the NYSE drawing for every one new teacher who participates with at least five qualifying** (see below) student teams.
- New SMG teachers who were recruited by the NYSE-trip winning teacher, and who registered at least five qualifying** (see below) student teams, will receive a Borders gift card.
- To be eligible for the NYSE drawing, the veteran teacher must have a minimum of five qualifying** (see below) student teams registered in the 2008-2009 school year, any session or sessions, with 3-5 students on each team.
**Qualifying student teams are those teams of three to five students, who satisfy all the SMG portfolio rules (see "Rules of the Game " in the Teacher Support Center once registered) and who have placed at least one buy order by the deletion date for that game session (see Game Dates at http://illinois.smgww.org.) In other words, student teams that are registered by the teacher but do not subsequently manage a portfolio according to Game rules, do not count toward the prize drawings.
Teachers' Workshop drawing
- The drawing for the winning teacher will take place on April 1, 2009.
- The winner of the drawing will receive a scholarship to the New York Stock Exchange’s Teachers’ Workshop during the summer of 2009. The winner may select the 5-day session they wish to attend from those offered and available. Travel days are Sunday and Friday evening.
- The teacher whose name is drawn will be emailed, and phoned at the number listed on the SMG registration form for that session. If an alternate phone number is available, please email that phone number to Marty Paul and that number will be kept for this purpose only.
- Scholarship amount is $750. The workshop, materials, daily continental breakfast and lunch are funded by the NYSE. Teacher costs to which the scholarship may be applied include transportation, room and evening meals (one or two evening meals are paid by hosts.) The NYSE will provide suggestions on reasonably-priced hotels and may help make reservations.
- To be eligible for the Teachers' Workshop drawing, the veteran teacher’s recruited teachers must meet the rules stipulated under the Eligibility section above.
- The Teachers' Workshop drawing will consist of all chances earned by veteran teachers during the 2008-2009 school year.
- A teacher whose name is drawn must respond by Wednesday, April 8 at 4:00 p.m. as to their availability for one of the Teachers’ Workshop 2009 summer sessions.
- If a teacher whose name is drawn does not respond or is unable to attend the 2009 Teachers’ Workshop, another name will be drawn on or before April 9.
Please contact ICEE if you have any questions about the Tell Another Teacher program for the 2008-2009 school year. E-mail Marty Paul at mpaul@niu.edu or phone toll-free, 877 - I DO ECON.
This NYSE award is dependent on the NYSE Euronext's offering of the Teachers' Workshop in 2009. Dates of the workshops will be available spring 2009. If the program is not offered, an alternate scholarship award will be given.