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HR 48 - Clements, Michael A.; invite to House

Smith, Jr., Charlie (175th)	Smith, Tommy (169th)

Status Summary	HC:	Rules	SC:		FR:	01/15/99	LA:	01/25/99	H - Passed/Adopted

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A RESOLUTION commending Michael A. Clements, of St Marys, Georgia, and inviting him to appear before the House of Representatives; and for other purposes.

HR 48                                              LC 22 3362 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             A RESOLUTION 
 
  1- 1  Commending Michael A. Clements, of St. Marys, Georgia, and 
  1- 2  inviting him to appear before the House of Representatives; 
  1- 3  and for other purposes. 
 
  1- 4  WHEREAS, Michael A. Clements, is an outstanding student at 
  1- 5  Camden County High School who has repeatedly demonstrated 
  1- 6  exceptional talent in math, science, and music; and 
 
  1- 7  WHEREAS, academic achievements are sometimes less celebrated 
  1- 8  than athletic achievements; and 
 
  1- 9  WHEREAS, proficiency in academic endeavors has been and 
  1-10  continues to be vital to the discoveries that have 
  1-11  lengthened the span of our lives, illuminated our 
  1-12  understanding of the physical world, and offered hope for 
  1-13  solving the problems of today and the future; and 
 
  1-14  WHEREAS, in the eighth grade, he was team leader of the math 
  1-15  team for St. Marys Middle School, which placed second 
  1-16  overall in statewide competition; and 
 
  1-17  WHEREAS, he won the Georgia Math League Award in the tenth 
  1-18  and eleventh grades, achieved 100% in two Math League 
  1-19  competitions in the eleventh grade, and earned a perfect 
  1-20  score on the math portion of the SAT; and 
 
  1-21  WHEREAS, he was a member of the All State Band in the ninth 
  1-22  grade, principal tympanist for the All State Band in the 
  1-23  tenth grade, principal snare for the All State Band in the 
  1-24  eleventh grade, and attended the Governor's Honors Program 
  1-25  as a percussion major in the twelfth grade; and 
 
  1-26  WHEREAS, his science projects have been winning competitions 
  1-27  since the fourth grade, exhibiting increasing complexity and 
  1-28  creativity in a wide range of subjects, including pendulum 
  1-29  motion, decay rates of bouncing objects, vortex rings, chaos 
  1-30  and randomness in mechanical devices, and Pythagorean 
  1-31  triads; and 
 
  1-32  WHEREAS, his latest project, "A Study of Parallel Circuit 
  1-33  Systems that Use Chaos to Encode and Decode Signals," won 
  1-34  first place in the Physics State Fair, a scholarship from 
  1-35  the University of Georgia Foundation, the NASA Award for 
 
 
 
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  2- 1  Outstanding Scientific Endeavor, and the Yale Science and 
  2- 2  Engineering Award and Pewter Medallion for  Most Outstanding 
  2- 3  Eleventh Grade Exhibit. 
 
  2- 4  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF 
  2- 5  REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body commend 
  2- 6  Michael A. Clements for his remarkable academic and musical 
  2- 7  abilities and achievements, predict a brilliant future for 
  2- 8  him, and invite him to appear before the House of 
  2- 9  Representatives at a time and date to be designated by the 
  2-10  Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
  2-11  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of 
  2-12  Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an 
  2-13  appropriate copy of this resolution to Michael A. Clements. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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