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Stock Market Project~Final Report

I tried to chose my stocks carefully. I chose the Cabot Oil and Gas Company (COG) because it was on a list of good stocks (and it has a funny name...). I chose Insulet Corporation (PODD) because my dad worked there, and when my brother did this project, he made $6,000 on it. I chose Agilent Technologies Inc (A) because both my mom and dad worked there, and because it went up a lot before I bought it.

Although I did very well, there are things I would have done differently. I would have bought more of COG because it went up about $20 (I got a profit of about $5,000 from it!)! I also would have kept it longer because since it was going up so fast, it might have gone up even more! I also would have bought more of PODD and A, because they went up a lot too. Not as much as COG, but they definitely went up! Also, at the beginning, I wanted to sell PODD and A because they both went down, but I'm glad I kept it, because if I had not, I would have had a serious loss!

Here are a few things I learned that might be helpful to those interested in investing in the stock market:

Selling your stocks:

Make sure your stocks are worth more when you sell them than when you buy them.

What a stock is:

A part of a company that is sold to anyone who is willing to buy.

Buying stocks:

Make sure you buy stocks that you think will go up in value. Buy them when they don't cost much.

This is my flag of Antarctica. It has a penguin on it because Antarctica has penguins. The writing is blue because blue usually means cold. The backround is white because it could be a blizzard. The blue lines around the edges are just to create some action in the picture.

This is a graph showing how deep and how long animals and people in the Antarctic can dive.

In flex class, we drew pictures to describe Greek or Latin word parts. This is a picture of Cogn. Cogn=Know

Hiding in the art room was a project we did in art class where we would take a picture of a good place to hide. Then, we would take a picture of ourselves. Then, we would take the picture of ourselves and select ourselves out of the picture using Adobe Photoshop and drag the picture of ourselves onto the picture of the place to hide. Then, we would have a picture of ourselves hiding in the art room!

Living in space can be hard. You only get to change cloths every three days. You can't eat anything crumbly. Your salt and pepper needs to be in liquid form. (Think about it, you cant SPRINKLE anything in a weightless area.) Although, living in space can also be kind of fun.

When in space, you work long hours. But you also get to have some fun. Astronauts love doing flips in space and looking out the window into the endless space. Some astronauts also like to see how some earth toys work in space. On any day, space workers are aloud to watch movies, play cards, read books, and talk to families.

Have you ever wondered how space worker sleep in space? How they don't fly away? The space station has two drawers that work as bunk beds. But, sometimes there are three astronauts there. So where does the third one sleep? He/she sleeps in a sleeping bag attached to a wall. The space shuttle has five bunk beds, though, because seven people usually stay in it.

Living in a weightless environment can be a perfect place for experiments. Space workers do experiments in space involving the weightlessness. They also make medicines that can only be made in space, and do medical experiments. They also do experiments with plants to see how to make them grow stronger. Also when up in space, they work on the space station and Hubble Telescope.

Space work isn't all work and no play. It also isn't all play and no work. Working in space can be very fun and interesting, but very few get to do it.