Congratulations to the UConn Storrs Fed Challenge team!
Over the past few days, the undergraduate students on the Fed Challenge team competed in the Boston Federal Reserve (Boston Regional) Fed Challenge competition, and they excelled – first advancing to the Boston Regional Finals, and then advancing to the National Finals.
As a result, in November the team members will be presenting their economic forecasts and monetary policy recommendations to the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC. This is an exceptional achievement.
A brief recap of the Boston event… On Friday, October 18th, the team competed with 23 other universities and colleges in the New England Boston Federal Reserve district. For the first round, the 24 teams (universities and colleges) were divided into six groups of four, with the winner of each group moving on to the Boston Regional Finals.
The UConn team won in its group, and earned its spot in the Regional Finals, joining the other five other Regional Finalists (Yale, Harvard, Wellesley, Babson and Dartmouth) to compete in a final round on Sunday. The final round would decide which three of the six Regional Finalists would move on to the National Finals.
UConn competed against the schools in the Regional Finals, presenting analyses of current macroeconomic conditions and monetary policy recommendations and fielding questions from Boston Federal Reserve economists. The UConn team was outstanding, and by the end of the day had made it to the National Finals along with two other teams.
The three New England Universities to move on are Yale, Harvard and UConn.
Congratulations to our student team members for all of their hard work and accomplishments!
The students are:
Viren Chainani (presenter)
Spencer Thompson (presenter)
Claire Dobbins (presenter)
Rai Kumar (presenter)
Katrina Melnik (presenter)
Nameeda Elmi
William Infante
Lilla Korniss
Evelyn Zhou
John Mclean
The faculty advisors are Derek Johnson and Owen Svalestad.