Bill Text: IL HR0915 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Alayna Nguyen and her team on being named grand champions of the 2020 NASA & Texas Instruments Codes Contest.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-01-08 - Resolution Adopted [HR0915 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0915-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Naperville North High | ||||||
| 4 | School senior Alayna Nguyen for her role in winning the 2020 | ||||||
| 5 | NASA & Texas Instruments Codes Contest; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The national contest asked middle and high school | ||||||
| 7 | students to propose ways to automate or optimize a process or | ||||||
| 8 | product for living in and working at the International Space | ||||||
| 9 | Station and required students to use coding and Texas | ||||||
| 10 | Instruments technology to design and build a model of their | ||||||
| 11 | proposed solution; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Alayna Nguyen partnered with high school students | ||||||
| 13 | from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to create the | ||||||
| 14 | competition's first-ever multi-state team, which they called | ||||||
| 15 | the "Germaphobes"; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, This multi-state team created a free-flying robot | ||||||
| 17 | that uses ultraviolet light for sterilizing the space station | ||||||
| 18 | so astronauts could spend their time focusing on experiments; | ||||||
| 19 | and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, The judges were impressed with the multi-state | ||||||
| 21 | team's ability to overcome distance barriers and collaborate | ||||||
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| 1 | virtually to design and build their model; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, After an initial judging round where projects were | ||||||
| 3 | scrutinized by a panel of judges from NASA and Texas | ||||||
| 4 | Instruments, the Germaphobes advanced to the final round, in | ||||||
| 5 | which the public was invited to vote online for their favorite | ||||||
| 6 | project; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, After more than 21,000 votes were cast, the | ||||||
| 8 | Germaphobes' sterilization project received the most votes; | ||||||
| 9 | and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Each of the grand champions will receive a Texas | ||||||
| 11 | Instruments graphing calculator and a Texas Instruments' | ||||||
| 12 | calculator-controlled robotic vehicle, the TI-Innovator Rover; | ||||||
| 13 | and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Each champion also wins a free trip to the Johnson | ||||||
| 15 | Space Center in Houston, Texas for a behind-the-scenes tour and | ||||||
| 16 | an opportunity to present their design to the International | ||||||
| 17 | Space Station Program Office personnel; therefore, be it
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| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 19 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 20 | we congratulate Alayna Nguyen and her team on being named grand | ||||||
| 21 | champions of the 2020 NASA & Texas Instruments Codes Contest; | ||||||
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| 1 | and be it further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 3 | presented to Alayna Nguyen as a symbol of our esteem and | ||||||
| 4 | respect.
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