Q. What grades can participate?
A. Middle and High School students participate in Exchange City. Each school decides which grades they want to attend.
Q. How many students can visit Exchange City?
A. Between 60 and 130 students can visit Exchange City each day.
Q.
How many students visit each year?
A.
Up to 15,000 students will visit the Exchange City in Portsmouth each
year.
Q.
What businesses are in Exchange City?
A.
Bank; Radio Station; Post Office; Heath Center; Newspaper; Restaurant;
Utility Company; Distribution Center; City Hall; Technology Center and
individual stores and businesses.
Q.
What will students do?
A.
Students take on roles of business owners, entrepreneurs, employees,
public officials and consumers, in a wide variety of stores and businesses.
Students
create job resumes and have job interviews for the many city positions.
Students
produce, price and market real products and services. Students
put together a business plan, calculate payroll expenses, plan advertising,
take on accounting services, make material purchases, and pay rent,
taxes and utilities.
