COBE Idaho Council on Economic Education Department

What is the Summit?

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An effective learning experience for high school and university students on globalization, international relations and economics. At the Summit, student teams, representing the nations of today’s complex world, compete for scarce resources, form strategic country alliances, debate global issues, invest in long term development projects, interact with global economic institutions, and seek to stabilize and advance the global economy.

High School Summit Program-High Schools may implement Classroom Mini Summits, or join a large Regional Summit, or both.

Univeristy Summit Program - Professors may implement the university version of the Summit program in their undergraduate courses.

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.