{"id":64577,"date":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/track-geniuses-win-3rd-annual-uri-calc-bowl\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"track-geniuses-win-3rd-annual-uri-calc-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/04\/track-geniuses-win-3rd-annual-uri-calc-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrack Geniuses\u201d win 3rd annual URI Calc Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 15, 2009 \u2013 Five University of Rhode Island students are sitting on top of the calculus world.  Team \u201cTrack Genius,\u201d consisting of students Michael Pezzulo, Kevin Healey, Joe Ferro, Shunzaburo Kida, and Daniel Shears, were the winners of URI\u2019s third annual Calc Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tURI calculus students as well as math scholars from local high schools participated in URI\u2019s 3rd annual Calc Bowl this month.  With a format similar to a game show, participants respond to multiple-choice pre-calculus and calculus questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tJim Baglama, a URI associate math professor, said that college students have no advantage over high school students in such a competition.  \u201cThe mathematical ability between the high school students in an advance calculus class and freshmen in a college calculus course are similar. Just because a college student, for example, may see more topics in calculus and possibly in more depth, does not mean they will be better prepared to quickly answer typical calculus problems in the Calc-Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThirteen teams consisting of 61 students participated in this year\u2019s event.  Nine teams were from URI, two teams from North Kingstown High School, and 2 teams from the Prout School in Wakefield.  Team \u201cVelocity Raptors,\u201d composed of students Ross McAndrew, Stephanie Hudon, and Brittany Dunn from the Prout School, finished in second place.  \u201cTeam \u201cEnginerds,\u201d consisting of URI students Andrea Ferguson, Beatrice Pratt, Keith Hebert, Sarah Loehr, and Sam Carreiro, finished third.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWinifred Brownell, dean of URI\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, was thrilled by the event\u2019s success.  \u201cI was delighted to see so many talented students enthusiastically engaging in a calculus competition and I appreciate the leadership efforts of our faculty in mathematics to organize this annual event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe competition consists of two preliminary rounds with the top three teams from each round moving on to the final round.  Six teams compete in the finals. The top three teams become the winners. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMore than $800 in prizes was given to the winners.  URI mathematics professors Lubos Thoma, and Li Wu, and Baglama organize Calc Bowl. It is sponsored and coordinated by the URI Math Department, with assistance from the URI Foundation, URI Pi Mu Epsilon and Wiley, a publishing company.  Belmont Fruit Market donated refreshments. <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 15, 2009 \u2013 Five University of Rhode Island students are sitting on top of the calculus world. Team \u201cTrack Genius,\u201d consisting of students Michael Pezzulo, Kevin Healey, Joe Ferro, Shunzaburo Kida, and Daniel Shears, were the winners of URI\u2019s third annual Calc Bowl. &#13; URI calculus students as well as math [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}