[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 28, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S4746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 GLENCOE STUDENTS WIN ENGINEERING AWARD

 Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, more than 1.8 million Americans are 
employed as engineers, making it the Nation's second largest 
profession.
  National Engineers Week has been celebrated annually since 1951 in 
order to increase recognition of the contributions that engineering and 
technology make in the quality of our lives. During the week of 
February 19 to 25, more than 40 well-known engineers participated in a 
variety of activities to help promote engineering.
  Among those activities was the national engineers week future city 
competition. This competition encourages middle-school students to help 
envision solutions to facing our Nation's cities. These seventh- and 
eighth-grade students use math and science skills to design tabletop 
models of futuristic cities, and each group of students is assisted by 
a teacher and a volunteer engineer.
  This year a team of students from Glencoe, IL, was among the seven 
teams from around the country that went to the final competition at the 
National Science Foundation, and I was pleased when they took third 
place in the competition.
  Those deserving special recognition are Stephanie Richart, Alexandra 
Wang, and Denise Armbruster, and their teacher, Barbara James, of 
Central School in Glencoe, and also Bob Armbruster who volunteered his 
services in helping the group with their project.


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