When she’s old enough for a summer job, Juliette LaMontagne has an “in” at Starbucks.
The 5th-grader from Morristown’s Thomas Jefferson School got a huge plug last week from Starbucks’ chief financial officer, Troy Alstead, at the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Seattle.
“First, let me say that I love this little kid,” said the CFO, describing Juliette as “my new all-time favorite stock analyst.”
Troy read excerpts from Juliette’s “very well thought out and impressive” prize-winning essay on investment strategies.
Her teacher, Jeff Brown, incorporates the Stock Market Game from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation into his Quest program for gifted and talented students. Juliette’s fifth-place finish in a national essay contest was announced last month at a school assembly.
Watch a replay of the Starbucks shareholders meeting. Juliette is cited at the 1:50 mark.
The essay compared Starbucks’ 50-, 100- and 200 moving day averages to “an invincible army with many layers of warriors. With the 50 on top, the 100 in the middle, and finally the 200 layered perfectly on the bottom, it screams ‘charge’ to the experienced investor,” wrote Juliette.
“I think that’s my favorite part,” Troy told the packed Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, to laughter.
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Juliette, who aspires to become an astrophysicist or novelist, concluded her essay: “My mom might say I am too young for coffee, but that is not going to stop me from buying Starbucks’ amazing stock!”
Howard Schultz, CEO of the $40 billion company, was all smiles after that.
“We tried to bring Juliette here, but it just did not work out,” he said. “She had to go to school.”
Your just jealous because she is smarter than you. I went to Thomas Jefferson and had to write this essay myself and I know that our teacher did not write it for us. Congratulations to the girl and i hope she continues to be recognized. And it was the CFO not the CEO>
That is ridiculous. There is no way a 5th grader wrote that. That is what is wrong with our country. The teachers shouldn’t have allowed her to win and the CEO of Starbucks used it for pure publicity. Doing this sends the wrong message to our children. They need to do things on their own and not have their parents do all their work. Speak to some recent college graduates and you’ll quickly find they have a sense of entitlement and don’t believe in the work ethic needed to succeed. It all starts with stuff like this and giving all kids an award no matter how well they do. Its a joke.