| 1 | 1 | | H.R. No. 1867 |
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| 4 | 4 | | R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 5 | 5 | | WHEREAS, Members of the AusTin Cans robotics team of Anderson |
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| 6 | 6 | | High School in Austin exhibited their robots at the K12 Robotics |
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| 7 | 7 | | Expo at the State Capitol on May 5, 2009; and |
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| 8 | 8 | | WHEREAS, The K12 Robotics Expo at the State Capitol is part of |
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| 9 | 9 | | the Capitol Boosting Engineering Science and Technology program; |
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| 10 | 10 | | Capitol BEST is an annual robotics competition in Travis and |
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| 11 | 11 | | surrounding counties; teams of high school students are given six |
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| 12 | 12 | | weeks to create a remote-controlled machine from a box of raw |
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| 13 | 13 | | materials, and winners advance to the Texas BEST contest at Texas |
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| 14 | 14 | | A&M University; and |
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| 15 | 15 | | WHEREAS, The AusTin Cans are a team of talented and energetic |
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| 16 | 16 | | Anderson High School students who have been working together to |
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| 17 | 17 | | design and create robots for competition since 2006; and |
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| 18 | 18 | | WHEREAS, The Anderson robotics team has participated in the |
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| 19 | 19 | | Capitol BEST Competition since 2006, and in 2007 they won several |
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| 20 | 20 | | awards, including second place overall, the High Score Award, the |
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| 21 | 21 | | third place BEST Award, and the Sportsmanship Award; that same |
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| 22 | 22 | | year, they also won the Rookie All-Star Award at the 2007 Lone Star |
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| 23 | 23 | | Regional FIRST Competition; and |
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| 24 | 24 | | WHEREAS, In 2008, three Anderson robotics teams advanced to |
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| 25 | 25 | | the semifinals of the Vex Robotics Competition, two of the teams |
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| 26 | 26 | | advanced to the finals, and one of the teams advanced to the |
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| 27 | 27 | | national competition; and |
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| 28 | 28 | | WHEREAS, The group's visit to the State Capitol provided an |
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| 29 | 29 | | excellent opportunity to showcase the innovative work of these |
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| 30 | 30 | | outstanding students and for all to admire the ingenuity of their |
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| 31 | 31 | | creations; now, therefore, be it |
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| 32 | 32 | | RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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| 33 | 33 | | Legislature hereby honor the Anderson High School AusTin Cans |
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| 34 | 34 | | robotics team and extend to its members and sponsors sincere best |
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| 35 | 35 | | wishes for continued success; and, be it further |
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| 36 | 36 | | RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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| 37 | 37 | | prepared for the AusTin Cans as an expression of high regard by the |
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| 38 | 38 | | Texas House of Representatives. |
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| 39 | 39 | | Howard of Travis |
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| 40 | 40 | | ______________________________ |
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| 41 | 41 | | Speaker of the House |
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| 42 | 42 | | I certify that H.R. No. 1867 was adopted by the House on May |
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| 43 | 43 | | 14, 2009, by a non-record vote. |
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| 44 | 44 | | ______________________________ |
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| 45 | 45 | | Chief Clerk of the House |
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