[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 27 (Thursday, February 13, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S2453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONGRATULATING MISSOURI WINNERS FOR THE NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK 
                   REGIONAL FUTURE CITY COMPETITION.

 Mr. BOND. Madam President, I rise today to congratulate three 
outstanding eighth grade students from Nipher Middle School in 
Kirkwood, MO: Rebecca Peterson, Roger Alessi, and Cait Hafer. These 
three students won National Engineers Week Regional Future City 
Competition.
  The National Engineers Week Future City Competition provides a fun 
and exciting educational engineering program for seventh and eighth-
grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a 
hands-on application to present their vision of a city of the future. 
As a part of the competition these students designed a city of the 
future which included decisions on population, waste management and how 
the city would be run. After they designed the city, they constructed a 
model of the city from recycled materials, completed an essay, and 
presented an oral presentation.
  These students have not only shown great leadership and team work, 
but they have also exemplified excellence in problem solving and 
creativity. They have demonstrated merit in math, science, and computer 
knowledge and I commend these exemplary students on their hard work and 
this well deserved honor.

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