[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 14, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E908]
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             RECOGNITION FOR THE YOUGH COUGAR ROCKETRY TEAM

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 14, 2008

  Mr. MURTHA. Madam Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to 
congratulate the Yough Cougar Rocketry team from Yough High School in 
Herminie, Pennsylvania. The Cougar Rocketry was the only team from the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania chosen to participate in the 2008 NASA 
Student Launch Initiative and is one of only eighteen teams selected 
nationally. The team was also selected in 2007.
  NASA describes the Student Launch Initiative as a program which 
``involves middle and high school students in designing, building and 
testing reusable rockets with associated scientific payloads.'' The 
program allows students to demonstrate their design's proof-of-concept 
and allows them to apply previously abstract concepts to hands-on work. 
Each team works to build a vehicle that is to reach an altitude of one 
mile above ground level. The finale of each team's work ends with a 
launch at Marshall Space Flight Center.
  Madam Speaker, the members of the Yough Cougar Rocketry team, whom I 
would like to personally recognize, include Ms. Stephanie Abbott, Ms. 
Amy Bickerstaff, Ms. Alicia Bowser, Mr. Josh Sarosinski, and Ms. Ashley 
Wiley. Mr. Donald Gilbert, Jr. is the team's teacher and advisor and 
Mr. Eric Haberman is the team's mentor from Westinghouse Corporation. I 
commend them all for their tremendous work.

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