Why the MMMC? COMAP's Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) successfully encourages teamwork, creativity and written exposition. However, one (logistically necessary) element that many students remark is lacking from this competition is adequate feedback -- both from the micro perspective "What do the judges really think of my team's paper?" to the macro " How did other teams answer this question?" This contest was designed in response to the afforementioned student concerns and has been developed to meet the following objectives: Encourage independent thinking. Promote collaboration. Develop mathematical communication abilities. Prepare student teams to participate in the MCM. Create a unique mathematical community. MMMC 2008 a Success! Thirteen teams representing five schools (Coe College, Cornell College, The University of Iowa, UW-La Crosse, and Simpson College) participated in the inaugural MMMC with all teams turning in a one-page summary and giving a 10-minute presentation. A panel comprised of faculty and graduate students from the participating schools judged one-page summary submissions. In addition to providing general feedback to all participants, this panel assigned each paper one of the following designations: participant, good, very good, and superior; two teams from the University of Iowa were chosen as ‘superior’. Teams presented their results in one of three concurrent sessions to an audience consisting of fellow participants, graduate students, junior faculty members (from the participating schools as well as from Augustana College and UW-Plateville) and a senior faculty member. Each group received individualized feedback from the group of more experienced mathematicians immediately following their respective session. However, student votes determined which teams would present their findings a second time in front of the whole group. Teams from UW-La Crosse, Coe College, and Simpson College were selected as finalists, with the team from Coe chosen (by student participants) as the top team. Results from a participant survey were strongly in favor of the format, especially the presence of teams from other schools as many participants strongly agreed that they gained insight and perspective from their fellow contestants. Students responded less favorably to the suggestion that, instead of schools submitting teams, schools should submit individuals and teams should consist of students from multiple schools. Overall student response was nearly unanimous in saying that they would participate in the MMMC again and that the weekend was fun. Interested in Competing? More specific information about the MMMC can be found by reading the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and the schedule. A one-page MMMC informational summary is available here.If you have additional questions, comments, are interested in future competitions or would like to have copies of MMMC 08 team summaries, please contact me.