Bill Text: HI SCR186 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Status Report: STEM; Robotics
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to EBM, EDN, referral sheet 67 [SCR186 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR186-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
requesting a status report and update on the STEM, Research Experiences for Teachers – Middle School, Project Environmental and Spatial Technology, and robotics programs within public schools.
WHEREAS, in 2007, the National Governors Association made improving the nation's economic competitiveness through innovation its primary focus, and in a report titled, "A Benchmarking of the Hawaii Educational System", Monitor Group and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices profiled how Hawaii's educational system was performing relative to national averages; and
WHEREAS, although Hawaii's high school graduation rate is close to the national average, its postsecondary completion rate is below the national average, and significantly below the highest-performing states; and
WHEREAS, the 2007 Legislature strongly endorsed initiatives related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and creative media education as the most practical, hands-on means of increasing students' interest in pursuing math and science and technology careers; and
WHEREAS, emphasizing the need to build upon solid performance outcomes, the Legislature enacted Act 111, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007 (Act 111), which expanded existing STEM programs like robotics (including FIRST Lego League, Junior FIRST Lego League, botball, underwater ROV, VEX, Micro-Robot, and robotics camps) and Research Experiences for Teachers – Middle School, and Act 271, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007 expanded Project EAST, the Environmental and Spatial Technology program; and
WHEREAS, the initial legislative targets for 2007-2008 were to double the existing forty-eight STEM, Research Experiences for Teachers – Middle School, Project Environmental and Spatial Technology, and robotics programs within public schools to achieve a level of eighty-four school initiatives, and these goals were far exceeded; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the House of Representatives concurring, that a status report on the economic impact of expanded workforce development outcomes be provided by those entities most directly involved in expanding the State's STEM initiatives and tracking growth of emerging industries in defense and dual-use, astronomy, engineering, aquaculture, and biotech and related industries; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that an update on the STEM, Research Experiences for Teachers – Middle School, Project Environmental and Spatial Technology, and robotics programs within public schools is requested from the following:
(1) University of Hawaii College of Engineering;
(2) Department of Education;
(3) Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism Energy Division;
(4) Robotics Organizing Committee; and
(5) Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii and the Hawaii 3Ts School Technology Laboratories Fund, under section 302A-1314, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that these five entities report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2011, on the status of their activities and recommendations; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Dean of the University of Hawaii College of Engineering; Superintendent of Education; Director of the Department of Business, Economic
Development, and Tourism Energy Division; Executive Director of the Robotics Organizing Committee; and Chair of the Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii.
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Status Report: STEM; Robotics
