[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 152 (Friday, December 12, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOGNIZING LOWCOUNTRY STUDENTS

 Mr. SCOTT. Madam President, I wish to commend the hard work 
and achievement of a team of students and their teacher in my State of 
South Carolina.
  I believe that education, and especially STEM education, is a key to 
success, and I am thrilled to see students across my State and our 
Nation creating original research to compete for the honor of having 
their experiments performed in space by the Student Spaceflights 
Experiments Program.
  This year, this team of Lowcountry students and teachers collaborated 
on an extraordinary experiment design to test the formation of tin 
whiskers in lead-free solder in space flight. With tin whisker 
formation causing failures in devices ranging from space satellites to 
pacemakers, the students chose an important and relevant topic for 
their work.
  Rachel Lindbergh, a senior at the Palmetto Scholars Academy, Gabriel 
Voigt, a sophomore at Bishop England High School, and Joseph Garvey, a 
sophomore at Palmetto Scholars Academy, came together with their 
teacher facilitator Kelly Voigt and put in a tremendous number of hours 
to create an excellent research project design.
  The team's experiment will be launched into space as part of the 
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 6 to the International 
Space Station.
  I am very proud of their work, and hope that it will serve as an 
example for all students that if you work hard and follow your passion, 
there is no telling where it may lead you.

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