74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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 LC 3892
 
                 Senate Concurrent Resolution 18
 
Sponsored by Senator BROWN
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Congratulates Pigmice for winning 2007 FIRST (For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League First
Place Champion's Award at FIRST Lego League World Festival.
 
                      CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  Whereas the Pigmice, a group 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 Nathan Fuller, Morgan
Pengelly, Keegan Livermore, Flannery Bethel and Hallie Frost 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 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 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 won the Intel Oregon FIRST Lego League
Qualifying and Championship Tournaments from among a field of 359
teams, winning with a perfect score of 400 and advancing the
Pigmice to the 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 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,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  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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