JCCC Student Named to All-USA Academic First Team
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. JCCC student Zichaun "Tren" Qu, Overland Park, has been named to the All-USA Academic First Team for Community and Junior Colleges in a national competition sponsored by USA Today, the American Association of Community Colleges and Phi Theta Kappa (an international honor society for student at two-year colleges).
Qu will be presented with a medallion and $2,500 check at the AACC's convention April 16 in Tampa and featured in a full-page article in USA Today on the same day.
Qu is also a New Century Scholar, the top scholar in Kansas selected in a state-level competition, earning him $2,000 from the Coca-Cola Foundation, and a 2006 Congressional Award Gold Medalist.
At JCCC, Qu is Student Senate president, Phi Theta Kappa vice president and 2006 Men's Athletic Academic Champion. In May, he is scheduled to receive an associate's of art degree with 108 credit hours, Civic Honors and, as of this writing, a grade point of 4.0. He has already earned an emergency medical technician certificate and is one of the first JCCC students to matriculate from JCCC's honors program to the University of Kansas honors program as part of a new agreement.
As a volunteer, Qu has served at Shawnee Mission Medical Center and KU Medical Center. He is an American Red Cross Greater Kansas City Chapter disaster responder and first aid care provider. As vice president of Phi Theta Kappa, he helped raise $1,200 and collect nonperishable foods for Katrina victims. As part of sociology class honors contract, Qu lived incognito five days in the City Union Mission's men shelter and completed a 7,000-word paper on his field research presented at the Kansas Sociological Society annual meeting in October 2006.
Because of his interest in teaching first aid, Qu became an assistant Scout master for Boy Scout Troop 186, Lenexa. Then in January 2006, he started volunteering as a Dream Manager for the Dream Factory of Greater Kansas City and has helped three children with life-altering illnesses to complete their dreams.
Qu is the second All-USA Academic First Team winner from JCCC. James Daugherty was the first in 2002.
