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| 2 | 2 | | *ADF166* 04/08/2025 11:03:58 AM ADF166 |
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| 3 | 3 | | State of Arkansas 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 95th General Assembly 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Regular Session, 2025 SR 66 3 |
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| 7 | 7 | | By: Senator B. Davis 5 |
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| 10 | 10 | | SENATE RESOLUTION 8 |
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| 11 | 11 | | TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY ROBOTICS 9 |
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| 12 | 12 | | CLUB FOR WINNING THE TOURNAMENT CHAMPION AND INNOVATE 10 |
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| 13 | 13 | | AWARDS AT THE 2025 TEXAS STATE VEX U TOURNAMENT. 11 |
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| 16 | 16 | | Subtitle 14 |
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| 17 | 17 | | TO RECOGNIZE THE ARKANSAS TECH 15 |
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| 18 | 18 | | UNIVERSITY ROBOTICS CLUB FOR WINNING THE 16 |
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| 19 | 19 | | TOURNAMENT CHAMPION AND INNOVATE AWARDS 17 |
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| 20 | 20 | | AT THE 2025 TEXAS STATE VEX U 18 |
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| 21 | 21 | | TOURNAMENT. 19 |
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| 23 | 23 | | WHEREAS, the Robotics Club of Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, 21 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Arkansas, earned the Tournament Champion and Innovate Awards at the 2025 22 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Texas State VEX U Tournament held at the Clear Creek Independent School 23 |
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| 26 | 26 | | District Robotics Event Center in Houston, Texas, on February 21 -22, 2025; 24 |
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| 27 | 27 | | and 25 |
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| 29 | 29 | | WHEREAS, out of fifteen (15) competing teams, only two (2) other teams 27 |
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| 30 | 30 | | won multiple awards at the tournament; and 28 |
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| 32 | 32 | | WHEREAS, the Arkansas Tech University Robotics Club fabricated some 30 |
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| 33 | 33 | | components using an on -campus shop and also three-dimensional printers, and 31 |
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| 34 | 34 | | they had to program the robot for an autonomous portion of the tournament; 32 |
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| 35 | 35 | | and 33 |
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| 37 | 37 | | WHEREAS, the Innovate Award recognizes an effective and well -documented 35 |
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| 38 | 38 | | design process for a novel aspect of a team's robot design or gameplay 36 SR66 |
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| 41 | 41 | | strategy, and the submission of an Engineering Notebook thoroughly 1 |
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| 42 | 42 | | documenting the development of this unique attribute is a requirement; and 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | WHEREAS, based upon its performance at the tournament, the Arkansas 4 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Tech University Robotics Club has qualified for its third consecutive 5 |
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| 46 | 46 | | invitation to compete in the VEX U World Championship, and this is one (1) of 6 |
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| 47 | 47 | | only twenty-four (24) automatic invitations awarded to United States -based 7 |
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| 48 | 48 | | universities for this competition; and 8 |
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| 50 | 50 | | WHEREAS, last year, the Arkansas Tech University Robotics Club advanced 10 |
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| 51 | 51 | | through the qualification stage to reach the elimination round at the VEX U 11 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Robotics World Championship and completed the 2023 -2024 robotics season with 12 |
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| 53 | 53 | | a top four (4) global skills ranking; and 13 |
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| 55 | 55 | | WHEREAS, members of the 2024 -2025 Arkansas Tech University Robotics 15 |
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| 56 | 56 | | Club are club president Hunter Mathis of Hope, club vice president Juan Leon 16 |
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| 57 | 57 | | of Hope, club secretary Braden Pierce of Bryant, club treasurer Ryan 17 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Nanthalangsy of Sheridan, club outreach director Everett Otis of Conway, 18 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Brady Bray of Greenwood, Preston Diehl of Conway, Jason "Collin" Easterling 19 |
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| 60 | 60 | | of Hope, Brandon Gallegos of Hope, Bo Allen Huey of Conway, Kavin Kannangara 20 |
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| 61 | 61 | | of Bentonville, Judit Morales -Mora of Russellville, Brody Peterson of 21 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Bentonville, Raul Hurtado of Conway, and Cooper Stober of Bentonville; and 22 |
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| 64 | 64 | | WHEREAS, club president Hunter Mathis stated of the team, "This year's 24 |
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| 65 | 65 | | team is comprised of both upper and lower classmen who have dedicated 25 |
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| 66 | 66 | | countless hours to building, programming, and piloting the most competitive 26 |
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| 67 | 67 | | robots ATU has ever produced. This year alone, the ATU Robotics Club members 27 |
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| 68 | 68 | | have invested over 10,000 total hours towards our success"; and 28 |
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| 70 | 70 | | WHEREAS, the team was led by club sponsor Jacob Weidenfeller of 30 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Harrison and club cosponsor Steve Ward of Dover, 31 |
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| 73 | 73 | | NOW THEREFORE, 33 |
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| 74 | 74 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY -FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE 34 |
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| 75 | 75 | | STATE OF ARKANSAS: 35 |
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| 76 | 76 | | 36 SR66 |
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| 79 | 79 | | THAT the Senate recognize the Arkansas Tech University Robotics Club 1 |
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| 80 | 80 | | for winning the Tournament Champion and Innovate Awards at the 2025 Texas 2 |
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| 81 | 81 | | State VEX U Tournament. 3 |
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| 83 | 83 | | BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT upon adoption, a copy of this resolution be 5 |
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| 84 | 84 | | presented to club sponsor Jacob Weidenfeller by the Secretary of the Senate. 6 |
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