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