Isn’t that amazing? At the national round of the 2018 Math Olympiad in Würzburg, Steinmühlen student Jan Audretsch (9th grade) took second place! Jan received a personal letter of congratulations from Hesse’s Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Prof. Dr. Alexander Lorz. The letter reads, in part: “In this mathematically challenging competition, you have demonstrated that you possess a high degree of abstract thinking and a wide range of mathematical methods.” We really couldn’t have put it better ourselves.
Dear Jan, Steinmühle is incredibly proud of you. It’s almost unbelievable to achieve such a high ranking! At the same time, however, we already know that this wasn’t your last competition success, and according to the school administration and your math teacher, Constanze Oestreicher-Gold, we’ll soon have even more good news to share about you. Huge congratulations! Keep up the great work—we’re rooting for you!