Nighthawks Economics Showdown
The is a competition and an educational program that aims to encourage high school students to learn more about economics. Other benefits are that students develop research and writing skills around a theme that UNG will designate each year.
The theme for the 2024 competition is "The Post-COVID Labor Market".
Eligibility & Requirements
This program is open to all eligible students and teachers without regard to ethnicity, gender, religion (creed), age, disability, or any other discriminatory reason.
Requirements:
- Participating high schools must be located in the Atlanta metropolitan area or the Northeast Georgia region.
- High school students must be enrolled in one of grades 9–12 at the time of registration.
- High schools may register only one team for the competition and each team may submit only one entry each year.
- Each team will consist of three to eight students who must be enrolled at the participating high school at the time of registration.
- Each team will be supervised by one faculty advisor who teaches economics or a closely-related discipline.
How to Enter
School teams must submit one paper directly related to the theme "The Post-COVID Labor Market" . The maximum length of each paper is 5,000 words excluding the title page and the references pages.
- Registration Deadline: Friday, October 11, 2024
- Essay Submission Deadline: Friday, November 1, 2024
- Notification for Finalists: Monday, December 2, 2024
- Finalists Video Submission Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025
- Announcement of Winner: Monday, February 3, 2025