Croton-Harmon High School team among semifinalists for the 2025 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition

The high school's Croton Securities Council was also a semifinalist last year.

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (where President Donald Trump got his business degree back in 1968) has announced the semifinalists in its annual Wharton Global High School Investment Competition, and there is good news for our local school district: For the second year in a row, Croton-Harmon High School’s Croton Securities Council is among the 50 contenders that will go on to the next round.

As the competition’s Web site states:

“More than 5,000 registrations began rolling in last June, ultimately resulting in more than 1,800 teams from 66 countries submitting final reports following the end of stock market trading on December 6, 2024 — our biggest Wharton Global High School Investment Competition yet.”

The competition is notable because the winners are chosen on the creativity and power of their investment strategies, not on how well their stock portfolios actually did.

The semifinalists hailed from the United States, Germany, India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Canada, Mauritius, and the Czech Republic.

The semifinals will be held virtually in March, and the top ten winning teams of that round will advance to the Global Finale, which will take place on April 25 and 26 of this year.

We asked district officials around noon today if they were planning to issue a statement about the news, but we had not heard back as of press time. We will update this story as soon as we hear more.

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