<p>During my managerial finance class in college we had a “game” where we (in groups of two) chose stocks - you had to pick at least two from a foreign country… and we set up an account on yahoo to watch the stocks. the rules were that each person had x amount of dollars to start with, and our professor kept track every time we changed anything and he charged a “brokerage fee” which we paid in terms of giving back some of our fake stocks and stuff… it was a really neat project. If i can find the syllabus from it i’ll send it to you, that would explain it better. </p>
<p>also, the business plan idea is great. i think all business people should at least be familiar with business plans. we had to do them in college and my senior project business plan was a good 150 pages long.</p>
<p>also, check with local businesses and see if you can come in for tours or something. during college one of the places we toured was harley davidson, and that was really neat. we got to see all aspects of how harley davidson’s were built, from start to finish, and we could stop and ask any questions that we needed to… you might not be able to get into harley, but maybe some smaller local business.</p>