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John Joseph Teng was born in 1971 in Madison Wisconsin to Eugene Young-Sheng Teng and Judith Pauline Kiefner. John is 50% Chinese, and a 50% mix of German, Irish, and Scottish descent. John has one sibling, Elizabeth, who passed away from Leukemia at the age of 5. Shortly after the death of his sister, John's mother relocated the two of them from Bloomington Indiana, to Rotterdam New York after which John's mother filed for divorce from his father. From the age of 8, John was raised by his mother in Rotterdam New York until graduating from Mohonasen Central High School in 1990. John then attended Brigham Young University in Provo Utah where he pursued a degree in Civil Engineering. After the completion of his first year of college, John volunteered to serve a two-year ecclesiastical missionary assignment to the Utah-Ogden mission. After returning from his volunteer missionary service, John returned to Brigham Young University and earned both a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering.