What is the Summit?

The Summit is a world trade simulation for high school students, which teaches fundamental economic concepts within the context of international trade. 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.