Dr. Philip Tew, PhD / JD

Conference Day Overview

Students will arrive to the A-State campus on the day of the Small Business Leadership Challenge and take over the 3rd floor of our Student Union.

Lunch will be in our Acansa Dining Hall – our buffet-style cafeteria at a group rate of $8 per person.

The top 7 teams participating in our StockTrak Stock Market simulation will present their portfolios live the day of the conference.

Workshops will focus on improving economic understanding.

Registration Instructions

For this conference, there will be two separate registration links.

Conference Registration – This will be for each teacher to submit their information as well as total student headcounts. Everyone should fill out this form if they plan on attending our conference day (you do not have to participate in the competition to attend).

Team Registration – This form will register the competing students as well as submit their materials. All materials will need to be accessible/public through whatever platform you are using (Google Drive, Canva, YouTube, etc.). There will also be space to register up to 5 students in a team. A form will need to be completed for each team.

Competition Rules

The Red Wolves of Wall Street Stock Pitch Challenge (“Pitch”) is a competition hosted by the Scarlet to Black Program at A-State for 3^rd – 6^th graders. 

The Pitch is different than the Stock Market Game. The goal of the Pitch is not to have “the highest return” or “profit”, but to create a sound, diversified portfolio which is important for long-term financial wealth.

Requirements

Students should be placed in teams of 2 – 5 individuals. Each team must register with StockTrak between January 19, 2026 and February 2, 2026 at the following link: https://app.stocktrak.com/members/register?sessionid=357911

Each Group’s USERNAME Should be SchoolName_LastName_LastName_Name. For example, ASU_Ricker_Tew_Washam_Kern_Leonard if there were 5 people on the team.

We recommend setting a classroom password or recording each team’s password. We do not have the ability to reset passwords, so your students may lose their progress if they forget.

Each team will have $1,000,000 to invest in stocks that trade on one of the United States’ exchanges (NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ). Each team needs to invest their money in a minimum of 5 different companies. They can trade multiple times if they would like, but their final portfolio will be the portfolio that exists on February 13, 2026. 

Goals

The goal of the Pitch is to have a portfolio which consists of:

• Stocks of companies which the students believe will increase in the next 3-5 years.
• A portfolio which is diversified
  • Diversification means not only different companies, but also different industries and different size companies.
    • For example, investing in Google, Intel, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon is diversified as it relates to different companies but not as it relates to industries (they are all in the tech sector) or size (they are all very large companies)
• The StockTrak simulation will allow students to see current prices to buy (including commission costs), research on all of the individual stocks, and research on the overall market. The simulation will also help students craft queries to place into ChatGPT to help with the stock picks. 

Submissions

Each group will submit a link to a YouTube video where the students discuss their portfolio. The discussion should include:

• which stocks were chosen
• why each stock is expected to increase in the next 3 – 5 years
• how their portfolio is diversified

This link should be submitted no later than 3:00 pm CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. The video should not be longer than 5 minutes.

The top 7 submissions will be notified by 3:00 pm on Friday, February 20, 2026. The top 7 submissions will present their portfolio discussion live on February 24^th at the Conference / Competition.