Challenge your students to make a profit investing in stocks.
Go to Virtual Stock Exchange - MarketWatch, create yourself an account then create a new game.
You can basically use all of their preset game settings just adjusting the dates for when you want the competition to run for.
Students can then join and start investing their pretend money in stocks. The stocks are real world and in real time.
There are also lots of videos students can watch within MartketWatch to gain more knowledge about the world of investment.
After a 10-day competition with 17 of my students, each starting with $100,000 the winner made a profit of $4,944.43!
5 players turned a profit, 12 did not. An important lesson!
To advertise this project I asked gemini AI to make me a poster, this is what it came up with →
Embedded below are the instructions to a project to teach students about RSA encryption and usage of spreadsheets (utilising Google sheets). The google doc can be found here