YFU Community College Program student top scorer in Nationwide Math Competition

YFU congratulates YFU Community College Program student Pei (Joe) Zhou of China top scorer for the 2012-2013 American Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC) Mathematics League Competition.

Nationwide Math Competition Results Announced

Results of the American Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC) Mathematics League Competition were announced by team advisor Mike Bartlett, Associate Professor of Mathematics at UW-Marinette at the annual Awards Banquet held May 10 at UW-Marinette.

The Student Mathematics League was founded in 1970 by Nassau Community College in New York. In 1981 the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges assumed sponsorship of the competition. This year 228 Colleges nation-wide competed. This included colleges ranging in student populations from over 20,000 to campuses the size of UW-Marinette with a student population of 461. “This is the eighth year that UW-Marinette has entered a team. Again this year there was some stiff competition,” said Bartlett. “A total of 25 students on our campus participated in at least one round of the competition. We congratulate all these students who participated either in the fall or spring round of the competition.”

In the second round held in the spring semester, the UW-Marinette team ranked 73rd nation-wide moving up 48 positions from 2012. Also, in round 2 UW-Marinette ranked 9th out of 35 schools in the Midwest region. UW-Marinette finished in 121st position overall nationwide and 19th overall in the Midwest region.

The UW-Marinette 5 top scorers for 2012-2013 from all students who completed at least one round of the competition are Ryne Hass of Marinette, Allison Finnell of Crivitz, Ryan Nelson of Marinette, Tara Hansen of Menominee, and Pei (Joe) Zhou of China. The top scorer for the 2012-2013 competition was Zhou who was awarded the Farmers & Merchants cash prize of $100 by Tom Maxwell, bank president.

Press Release provided by: University of Wisconsin - Marinette

Founders Week - April 8 - April 14, 2013

April 8th marks an important day for Youth For Understanding (YFU) around the world. It marks the birthday of the towering figure whom we rightfully consider the founder of YFU: Rachel Andresen.

Rachel Josephine Andresen

Born: April 8, 1907, in Deerfield MI
Died:  November 3, 1988, in South Lyon MI.

Youth For Understanding is a dream come true...To be part of it brings out the best in all of us. Each of us who has shared the magic of its being has contributed [to] something bigger than we are. Wehave learned to love and be loved, to trust and be trusted, to open our homes and our hearts to all people, everywhere.

 ~ Rachel Andresen, 1959. 

Motivated by a desire to help heal the wounds of World War II, Dr. Rachel Andresen of Ann Arbor, Michigan brought German teenagers to live with American families for a one-year cultural and educational immersion. Borne of this effort, she founded Youth For Understanding (YFU) an international nonprofit, high school student exchange program. YFU has since grown to exchange more than 250,000 students among 60+ countries. Rachel Andresen’s work in the field of international youth exchange earned her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 1973. She was also cited as one of the “founding five” of international citizen exchanges.  In his 1985 book, Bring Home the World, author Stephen Rhinesmith (past president of American Field Service), dedicated his book, “To Rachel Andresen, Dwight Eisenhower, William Fulbright, Stephen Galatti and Donald Watt whose collective vision of the possibilities of international exchanges have enabled hundreds of thousands of us to bring home the world.”