Full Text of HR1231 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On April 11, 2016, the Gallatin County High School | 3 | | Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Team competed | 4 | | in and won the State championship at the University of Illinois | 5 | | in Urbana-Champaign; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Academic Challenge is an annual competition in | 7 | | which schools test at the regional, sectional, and State | 8 | | levels, with teams of 14 members; test material is drawn from | 9 | | senior-level high school and freshman-level college curricula; | 10 | | the competition is composed of seven subjects, Biology, | 11 | | Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Graphics, English, | 12 | | Mathematics, and Physics, with each student testing in two | 13 | | subjects; students have 40 minutes to complete the | 14 | | multiple-choice tests, which vary in length from 30 to 100 | 15 | | questions; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Twenty-eight teams and 61 individuals competed at | 17 | | the State championship, representing 44 high schools across | 18 | | Illinois; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, This occasion marks the first time in the history | 20 | | of Gallatin County High School that a team has won a State | 21 | | championship; Gallatin County has been represented at the State | 22 | | level 15 times since 1998, when the WYSE competition was |
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| 1 | | created; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, The Gallatin County WYSE Team received a perfect | 3 | | score at the Regional Competition, hosted by Southeastern | 4 | | Illinois College, and placed second at the Sectional | 5 | | Competition, hosted by Southern Illinois University | 6 | | Carbondale; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Individual medal winners from Gallatin County | 8 | | included Nathan Shults, fifth in Engineering Graphics, Kaleb | 9 | | Burklow, fifth in Chemistry and sixth in Mathematics, and Aaron | 10 | | Walters, fifth in Engineering Graphics; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The members of Gallatin County's varsity team are | 12 | | MaKalyn Smith, Kelsi May, Kaylee McGuire, Kaleb Burklow, Jacob | 13 | | Watson, Michaela Springer, Dylan Boggs, Nathan Shults, Dylan | 14 | | Garrison, Brody Watts, Bryon Wargel, Aaron Walters, Caitlin | 15 | | Lynch, and Lilly Galt; the team's coaches are Lindsay Adams and | 16 | | Billyjoe Menard; therefore, be it
| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 | | congratulate the members of the Gallatin County High School | 20 | | WYSE Team on the occasion of their 2016 successful season and | 21 | | State championship victory and wish them continued success and | 22 | | happiness in the future; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to the Gallatin County High School WYSE Team as a | 3 | | symbol of our respect and esteem.
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