Bill Text: TX HR1618 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating the McKinney High School Flying Lions Rocketry Team for winning an award at the 2017 NASA Student Launch.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Reported enrolled [HR1618 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR1618-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 1618 | ||
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| WHEREAS, The McKinney High School Flying Lions Rocketry Team | ||
| was a preliminary winner at the 2016-2017 NASA Student Launch | ||
| challenge in Huntsville, Alabama, which was held from April 5 to 9, | ||
| 2017; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Hosted by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the | ||
| 17th annual NASA Student Launch represented the culmination of | ||
| eight months of teamwork by 60 middle school, high school, and | ||
| college-level rocketry squads from 23 states; the middle and high | ||
| school teams qualified for the competition by finishing among the | ||
| top 25 at the Team America Rocketry Challenge in Washington, D.C., | ||
| and their acceptance was based on a proposal detailing their | ||
| rocket's design, recovery system, payload, safety measures, and | ||
| educational engagement plans; the Flying Lions were one of only | ||
| three middle and high school teams selected from Texas, and the | ||
| group was named the preliminary winner of the Rocket Fair Display | ||
| Award in its division at the Student Launch challenge; and | ||
| WHEREAS, With advice from engineers at Raytheon and Emerson | ||
| Electric, the team completed several technical design reviews via | ||
| videoconference with NASA engineers during the school year as the | ||
| students progressed through the design and build stages of their | ||
| project; the end result was a 10-foot-tall 50-pound rocket that can | ||
| reach a speed of 370 miles per hour and an altitude of one mile and | ||
| can land safely by parachute for reuse; and | ||
| WHEREAS, By creating a functional rocket in the NASA Student | ||
| Launch, the members of the Flying Lions have broadened their | ||
| knowledge in the vital areas of science, technology, engineering, | ||
| and math while also experiencing the rewards of meeting a | ||
| challenging goal, and they may indeed take pride in their | ||
| impressive achievement; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby congratulate the McKinney High School Flying | ||
| Lions Rocketry Team on becoming the preliminary winner of the | ||
| Rocket Fair Display Award at the 2017 NASA Student Launch and extend | ||
| to the team's members sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for the Flying Lions as an expression of high regard by the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| Sanford | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 1618 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 4, 2017, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
