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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Timothy Credo is one of 20 students named to the |
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| 2005 All-USA High School Academic First Team, USA TODAY's |
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| recognition program for outstanding high school students; each |
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| receives a trophy and a $2,500 cash award; and
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| WHEREAS, The 20 students were selected from more than 1,600 |
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| nominees nationwide as representatives of all outstanding |
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| students; judges considered academics, leadership, and most |
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| importantly, how students have extended their intellectual |
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| abilities beyond the classroom; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Credo is the son of Robert and Margaret Credo; |
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| he is a student at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in |
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| Aurora; he plans to attend Harvard University; and
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| WHEREAS, He developed a particle detector that cuts timing |
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| uncertainty to the picosecond, or trillionth of a second, for |
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| which he gave a poster presentation at the Nuclear Science |
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| Symposium in Rome; he received the $75,000 second-place |
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| scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search and the Siemens |
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| Award for Advanced Placement; and
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| WHEREAS, He is a member of the U.S. Physics Team and was |
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| selected to present research on billiard systems at the |
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| American Association for Advancement of Science annual |
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| meeting; he is a varsity swimmer and the assistant editor in |
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| chief of the school newspaper; he scored an impressive 1600 on |
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| the SAT; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate Timothy Credo on being named to USA TODAY'S |
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| 2005 All-USA High School Academic First Team; and be it further
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