The program is designed to support futures industry education for college and university students while providing hands-on experience with CQG's electronic trading tools. CQG donated in-kind software gifts to both institutions, allowing students to access CQG Integrated Client as part of their trading and technical analysis training.

"This has been a big year for CQG in terms of adding university partners. Earlier this year, we made in-kind software gifts to the University of Dayton's Hanley Trading Center and the University of Colorado Denver's new J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities," said Josef Schroeter, President of CQG. "We are pleased to announce our first gift to a Canadian educational institution and to add another North American college. We hope the students at these new schools will benefit from the experiential learning now available to them with our trading and analytics platform, which allows them to analyze markets and simulate trades."

Through the CQG on Campus program, the company provides in-kind software license support to more than twelve schools in North America and abroad. In addition to these college and university partnerships, CQG serves as the technology sponsor of the CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge, an annual event that attracts competitors from more than ninety schools worldwide.

"We highly appreciate CQG's policy towards the next generation of market professionals," said Ivan Ourdev, Finance Instructor at the JR Shaw School of Business. "It is a commendable example of increasing social capital by providing students with the opportunity to get exposure to financial markets and acquire knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the modern world. Everybody is a winner as a result - the students, the future employers, the markets, and the society as a whole."

John A. Logan College Associate Professor of Finance, David England is grateful for the opportunity to work with the software. "My stock market curriculum at John A. Logan College covers everything from 'this is a stock' to trading E-Mini futures. So, being able to work with the legendary CQG trading platform is like a dream come true to me. I know I speak for the College and fifty very excited students when I say thank you very much CQG, for the opportunity," stated England.

John A. Logan College President Mike Dreith expressed great pleasure with what David England has been able to do with his program at JALC. "In the short time that I have been at John A. Logan College, I have been amazed with the level of excitement that David England's classes and seminars generate. What this partnership with a company as respected as CQG means to the College is immeasurable and I am very thankful for this in-kind donation from CQG, especially for the benefit that it will have for David and his students," stated Dreith.