By Conley Publishing Group

MEQUON — They are National Merit Scholarship finalists and were already one of the top competitive math teams in the country last week, when four Homestead High School students recently took the top spot in a prestigious international math competition. Adam Garsha, Jacob Schmidman, Eric Wan and Ethan Wang were among nearly 2,700 students working in 612 teams, who participated in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), a prestigious competition that demonstrates the importance of math in everyday life.

The team of four 11th- and 12th-graders took home the top prize of $20,000 in college scholarships, out of the total $100,000-plus being awarded, after being chosen as winners during the final event in New York City April 25.

Thousands of high school juniors and seniors across the U.S. and six students from the U.K. vied for distinction in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge. The competition was judged by an international panel of Ph.D.-level mathematicians.

The 2022 M3 Challenge saw students spend 14 consecutive hours in late February using mathematical modeling to solve a real-world problem by collecting data and creating models, developing insight on the problem and submitting their solutions online.

This year’s competition asked students to use math modeling to predict the future of remote work, analyzing the percent of jobs that are remote-ready and whether workers in those jobs will be willing or able to work remotely, then determining the percentage of workers who will go remote in a given city or metro area.

General Secretary and CEO of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation

Photo Credit Monika Lozinska

In this monthly column, we introduce readers to the talented staff members at Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation, many of whom work behind the scenes at RI headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, and in six offices outside the United States. This month, we feature John Hewko, General Secretary and CEO of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation.

• Holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from the University of Oxford (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York
• Speaks five languages — English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian
• Served as the vice president for operations and compact development at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency, where he negotiated foreign assistance agreements totaling $6.3 billion for 18 countries in the areas of infrastructure, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education
• He and his wife, Marga, are Major Donors to The Rotary Foundation

By Eddie Morales - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network opened a community hospital in Mequon on May 2.

The new hospital, across the street from the Froedtert & MCW Mequon Health Center, at 11421 N. Port Washington Road, will aim to provide “high quality care in an inviting, streamlined setting close to home when sudden needs arise,” according to a news release from Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin.

“We are proud to announce the opening of our fourth community hospital within our health network which expands our ability to provide access to care in more communities with an easy to navigate footprint,” said Cathy Jacobson, president and chief executive officer of Froedtert Health, in a statement.

“Our newest community hospital in Mequon supports our mission by providing access to academic medicine for the diverse communities we serve,” Jacobson added.

Mequon joins New Berlin, Oak Creek and Pewaukee in having its own small-scale Froedtert & MCW hospital.

The 17,000-square-foot Mequon hospital is open 24 hours a day and features a seven-bed emergency department with eight inpatient beds and includes laboratory, pharmacy and imaging services.

“The addition of a new community hospital in Mequon also supports our continued growth in the North Shore area and beyond and supports our focus of adding specialty care within the region and complements our expansion of primary care access across the health network,” Jacobson said.

Froedtert Health Center Urgent Care in Mequon closed indefinitely Feb. 1, citing staffing issues related to COVID-19. About 40 full-and part-time emergency physicians and registered nurses staff the community hospitals.

“We are extremely grateful to our providers and staff whose tireless work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled us to open four new hospitals during these challenging times which has allowed us to provide access to safe, high-quality care close to home,” said Jacobson.