This week's guest on KIDO Radio is Leon Maynard with The Idaho Council on Economic Education. The council provides The Summit program is a ten-week economics curriculum designed around the theme of international trade and globalization. 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.
Every Thursday at 8:55 a.m. KIDO Radio hosts Dave Burnett and Bryon Norton interview a Buy Idaho member about their business. The interview is an informal question and answer session about the member's business, the products or services they provide contact information, such as address, phone numbers and web site address. The interview is designed to help Buy Idaho members market their products and services.
