Full Text of HR0119 95th General Assembly
HR0119 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to honor students at Boulder Hill | 4 |
| Elementary School in Montgomery; and
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| WHEREAS, The fourth and fifth grade students of Boulder | 6 |
| Hill Elementary School in Montgomery, along with the fourth | 7 |
| grade teachers, and volunteers from the local amateur radio | 8 |
| community, will be making contact with the International Space | 9 |
| Station through the joint efforts of ARISS (Amateur Radio | 10 |
| Aboard the International Space Station) and the Fox River Radio | 11 |
| League in Aurora; and
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| WHEREAS, The program is a volunteer effort on the part of | 13 |
| parents and Fox Radio League members; the students have studied | 14 |
| methods of communication, sound and sound waves, the space | 15 |
| program, the space station, the mission of the space station, | 16 |
| and built working crystal radios; they also have talked with | 17 |
| other radio amateurs in Alaska, Florida, England, Croatia, and | 18 |
| other locations around the world; and
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| WHEREAS, The big event occurs during the week of March 5-9, | 20 |
| 2007; this will be the first contact in Kendall, Will, Kane, | 21 |
| and DuPage counties between a school and the International | 22 |
| Space Station; only about 25 such radio contacts are made each |
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| year with the Space Station; and
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| WHEREAS, The students are being assisted by lead teacher, | 3 |
| Tiffany Vanatta; assistant teachers are Paula Barnes, Maryam | 4 |
| Nystedt, and Katie Serge; the amateur radio operators are John | 5 |
| Spasojevich, Greg Braun, Joe Buan, and members of the Fox River | 6 |
| Radio League; and
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| WHEREAS, The students involved in this undertaking are Gabe | 8 |
| Aguirre, Casey Blincoe, Jordan Campbell, Hannah Cooper, Nathan | 9 |
| Edwards, Elise Engelhardt, Aaron Esquivel, Abby Etheridge, | 10 |
| Matthew Gerler, Courtney Hoban, Brandon Isberg, Ashley | 11 |
| Jourdan, Devin Keenan, Connor Klayman, Emily Majewski, Maggie | 12 |
| Orick, Nathaniel Paisley, Kaela Pelletier, Alyssa Plohr, | 13 |
| Kaitlyn Potts, Rachel Prater, Kevin Prater, Evan Raeder, Brooke | 14 |
| Sidwell, Scott Test, Justin Toland, Rachel VanBoekel, Jose | 15 |
| Wagner, Katie Warren, and Jack Weinz; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 |
| congratulate the students and teachers at Boulder Hill | 19 |
| Elementary School for their hard work and dedication in making | 20 |
| communicating with the International Space Station possible; | 21 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to everyone involved in this event as a symbol of our | 2 |
| esteem.
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