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Mission: To increase the interest in slide rules and numeracy throughout the world,
to add excitement and friendly competition between member organizations by rewarding
the slide rule prowess and math competency of individual slide rule collectors, students, and members of engineering associations, to
increase the spirit of camaraderie amongst the collector communities, and to increase
the membership of the respective national organizations.
As a secondary benefit, competitors will be become more knowledgeable and may be more
willing to teach a slide rule seminar in their respective home towns, thereby recruiting
younger members to the organizations.
Thirdly, this is supposed to be a FUN event in order to increase the enjoyment of owning
and using a slide rule!
Finally, The medals are provided FREE by ISRM to any organization
willing to host an ISRC contest.
The first ISRC contest was administered by Rose Suarez, teacher of Mathematics
and Research at Half Hollow Hills HS
in Half Hollow Hills, NY. The winners (in the left column) show off their ISRC medals.
Two students tied for 1st and three tied for 2nd. They were sent individual medals after
the competition.
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The ISRC contest was challenged by Kristen Fouss's Pre-calculus class at
Anderson HS in Cincinnati, Ohio using slide rules provided by ISRM's Slide Rule Loaner
program. The Gold and Silver Medalists proudly show off their medals. With sufficient
advanced warning, ISRM will supply ribbbons to match the school's (or national) colors
instead of the non-country specific maroon and white.
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Gold: Werner H. Rudowski(center)
Silver: Jörn Lütjens (right)
Bronze: Klaus G. Krämer (left)
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The Deutschsprachigen Rechenschieber-Sammler RST (German speaking Slide Rule Collectors) held its 23rd annual meeting in Altona (Hamburg) Germany on April 14, 2012 and hosted the 2012 'truly'
International Slide Rule Championships, the first one to be held in Europe. 15 of the 40 slide rule collectors, 5 countries (Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Finland) volunteered in participating in the International Slide Rule contest (Continental European) 2012, which was performed for the first time. The main profession of the contesters were (retired) engineers, 2 active pilots, and teachers. All the participants received an ARISTO Darmstadt 967 slide rule and had to solve 10 problems within 30 minutes.
The champion, Werner H. Rudowski won with with 10 (all) solutions solved followed by Jörn Lütjens with 9,5 solutions and Klaus G. Krämer with 9 solutions. Congratulations all!
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If your organization wishes to have 7" x 9" plaques instead of medals I'll make up a set
for $30.00 USD each (which is my cost) plus shipping, sent to anywhere. You will need to make a Paypal
donation to ISRM using the button below to cover the cost of plaques.
If you wish to support this program, by making a monetary donation, each
medal set plus shipping around the world costs us about $25.00 USD. Thank you!
Questions? Call Michael at 303-921-8709.
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