On
Saturday (February 6, 2016) Krause Introduced Incoming High School Students and
Parents to the AIM Program
On Saturday, Dr.
David Krause, AIM program director, presented to a group of high school
students and their parents at Marquette’s annual Scholarship
Competition and Open House in the College of Business.
Krause told the
students and parents about Marquette’s
finance major. He provided material about the upcoming commercial banking
program – as well as discussing the existing Real
Estate and Applied
Investment Management (AIM) programs. He answered questions from the group
of more than 250 attendees.
Students and parents
were able to visit the AIM Room and many had an opportunity to talk with
students currently in the AIM program. Students in the Classes of 2016 and 2017
talked about pitching stocks and what it was like to manage portfolios of
common equity and bonds.
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| Dr. Krause, AIM program director |
The interested
students were encouraged to follow the AIM blog site to learn more
about the regular events and activities taking place within the program. The AIM
students also talk about how the program was beginning to incorporate real-time
micro-blogging (via Twitter) during the presentations.
During the AIM
student equity pitches held on Friday afternoons at 3:00 CST it is possible for anyone with an internet connection to
view the student presentations via webcast - and to post questions and comments
at #AIMpitch on the @MarquetteAIM Twitter site. The
presenting students have the opportunity to respond to the questions over the
weekend before the students vote on whether or not to add the stocks they
pitched.
The AIM student equity
write-ups can be accessed at the AIM
web site. Dr. Krause encouraged interested high school students who wish to
become members of the AIM program in the future to begin following the
financial markets. He indicated that AIM students were happy to connect with
high school students who sought additional information about Marquette, the
College of Business, and the finance major. By emailing AIM@marquett.edu we will be able to link interested students with current AIM students.
