Utilizing experience-based learning, the Summit challenges high school students to think critically about the benefits and costs of trade and to explore globalization.  The Summit includes a ten-week curriculum in which students work in teams as virtual “Economic Advisors” to an assigned country and create a strategic plan to improve living standards for their population. The program culminates in a Mini Summit event at the school and a Regional Summit competition hosted at a local university. On that day, students implement their plans through activities such as alliance negotiations, economic proposal debates, a geography quiz, an economics test and an international export-import trading session.

Mr. Russell will take a team of Wasco High School students to the Regional Summit in December, to be held at the University of Southern California.

To view all of the pictures from this fall's Mini-Summit, click here.