[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 89 (Thursday, June 24, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7424-S7425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               HONORING STEPHAN KATHMAN AND DAVID SHEETS

 Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, I pay tribute and congratulate 
both Stephan Kathman of Covington, KY, and David Sheets of Lexington, 
KY, on being named two of the seventy-eight outstanding U.S. high 
school students to attend the 21st annual Research Science Institute 
(RSI). The Institute, sponsored by the Center for Excellence in 
Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the 
California Institute of Technology, will

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take place this summer. Students in this program represent the upper 
one-percent of those in the United States who took the PSAT exam.
  Science and technology is extremely important for the economic growth 
of this country, and we need to encourage young scholars to pursue 
careers of excellence and leadership in the field. These two young men 
and the others involved in this program are the future leaders of this 
country and deserve our recognition. These students are competitively 
selected to attend and, subsequently, are provided with assistance for 
the eight to ten years of their undergraduate and graduate studies.
  So often we hear of failures of the U.S. educational system; however, 
students chosen for RSI are proof that good things are happening in our 
schools. Kentucky is doing its job to nurture some of the county's 
finest talent. I join my fellow Kentuckians to congratulate Stephan 
Kathman and David Sheets on their achievements and wish them luck this 
summer at the Research Science Institute.

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