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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, On April 11, 2016, the Gallatin County High School
3Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Team competed
4in and won the State championship at the University of Illinois
5in Urbana-Champaign; and
 
6    WHEREAS, The Academic Challenge is an annual competition in
7which schools test at the regional, sectional, and State
8levels, with teams of 14 members; test material is drawn from
9senior-level high school and freshman-level college curricula;
10the competition is composed of seven subjects, Biology,
11Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Graphics, English,
12Mathematics, and Physics, with each student testing in two
13subjects; students have 40 minutes to complete the
14multiple-choice tests, which vary in length from 30 to 100
15questions; and
 
16    WHEREAS, Twenty-eight teams and 61 individuals competed at
17the State championship, representing 44 high schools across
18Illinois; and
 
19    WHEREAS, This occasion marks the first time in the history
20of Gallatin County High School that a team has won a State
21championship; Gallatin County has been represented at the State
22level 15 times since 1998, when the WYSE competition was

 

 

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2    WHEREAS, The Gallatin County WYSE Team received a perfect
3score at the Regional Competition, hosted by Southeastern
4Illinois College, and placed second at the Sectional
5Competition, hosted by Southern Illinois University
6Carbondale; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Individual medal winners from Gallatin County
8included Nathan Shults, fifth in Engineering Graphics, Kaleb
9Burklow, fifth in Chemistry and sixth in Mathematics, and Aaron
10Walters, fifth in Engineering Graphics; and
 
11    WHEREAS, The members of Gallatin County's varsity team are
12MaKalyn Smith, Kelsi May, Kaylee McGuire, Kaleb Burklow, Jacob
13Watson, Michaela Springer, Dylan Boggs, Nathan Shults, Dylan
14Garrison, Brody Watts, Bryon Wargel, Aaron Walters, Caitlin
15Lynch, and Lilly Galt; the team's coaches are Lindsay Adams and
16Billyjoe Menard; therefore, be it
 
17    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
18NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
19congratulate the members of the Gallatin County High School
20WYSE Team on the occasion of their 2016 successful season and
21State championship victory and wish them continued success and
22happiness in the future; and be it further
 

 

 

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1    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
2presented to the Gallatin County High School WYSE Team as a
3symbol of our respect and esteem.