Senate Concurrent Resolution 18
Whereas the Pigmice, a
team of seventh graders from southeast Portland, won the 2007 FIRST (For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League First Place
Champion’s Award at the FIRST LEGO League World Festival held in Atlanta,
Georgia, in April 2007; and
Whereas the winning team
members are Flannery Bethel, Hallie Frost, Nathan Fuller, Keegan Livermore and
Morgan Pengelly from Winterhaven School and Olivia Bolles from da Vinci Middle School,
who have been close friends since the third grade, when they all attended the
now-closed Edwards Elementary School; and
Whereas the Pigmice had
three months to build and program a robot out of LEGOS and program the robot to
do specific tasks based on real world issues; and
Whereas the judges were
highly impressed by the Pigmice’s project, which used nanotechnology concepts
to clean degraded plastic particle pollution from the ocean; and
Whereas this is the
fourth year the Pigmice have competed in the FIRST LEGO League but the first
time they have qualified to compete in the World Festival, where 94 other teams
from 22 countries came to compete; and
Whereas the Pigmice were
judged the most outstanding team in Oregon, winning the Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO
League Qualifying and Championship Tournaments from among a field of 359 teams
and advancing to the FIRST LEGO League World Festival; and
Whereas the Pigmice were
judged in four categories, including the performance of the team’s LEGO robot,
their scientific knowledge of their project, a presentation of their research
and their ability to exhibit good teamwork; and
Whereas the Pigmice hope
to assist the Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program to expand the
FIRST LEGO League program in Oregon from 359 to 475 teams by applying their
knowledge and recent publicity to foster and mentor new teams; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the
Legislative Assembly of the State of
That we, the members of
the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly, congratulate the members of the
Pigmice on their great achievement and encourage them to continue their
exceptional work and devotion to the study of engineering.
Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 25, 2007
__________