74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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                 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 18
 
                      By COMMITTEE ON RULES
 
                             June 4
 
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  ' Whereas the Pigmice, a team of seventh graders from southeast
Portland, won the 2007 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of
Science and Technology) LEGO League First Place Champion's Award
at the FIRST LEGO League World Festival held in Atlanta, Georgia,
in April 2007; and
  ' Whereas the winning team members are Flannery Bethel, Hallie
Frost, Nathan Fuller, Keegan Livermore and Morgan Pengelly from
Winterhaven School and Olivia Bolles from da Vinci Middle School,
who have been close friends since the third grade, when they all
attended the now-closed Edwards Elementary School; and
  ' Whereas the Pigmice had three months to build and program a
robot out of LEGOS and program the robot to do specific tasks
based on real world issues; and
  ' Whereas the judges were highly impressed by the Pigmice's
project, which used nanotechnology concepts to clean degraded
plastic particle pollution from the ocean; and
  ' Whereas this is the fourth year the Pigmice have competed in
the FIRST LEGO League but the first time they have qualified to
compete in the World Festival, where 94 other teams from 22
countries came to compete; and
  ' Whereas the Pigmice were judged the most outstanding team in
Oregon, winning the Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO League Qualifying and
Championship Tournaments from among a field of 359 teams and
advancing to the FIRST LEGO League World Festival; and
  ' Whereas the Pigmice were judged in four categories, including
the performance of the team's LEGO robot, their scientific
knowledge of their project, a presentation of their research and
their ability to exhibit good teamwork; and
  ' Whereas the Pigmice hope to assist the Oregon Robotics
Tournament and Outreach Program to expand the FIRST LEGO League
program in Oregon from 359 to 475 teams by applying their
knowledge and recent publicity to foster and mentor new teams;
now, therefore,'.
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  ' That we, the members of the Seventy-fourth Legislative
Assembly, congratulate the members of the Pigmice on their great
achievement and encourage them to continue their exceptional work
and devotion to the study of engineering.'.
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