[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





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         SAMSUNG SOLVE FOR TOMORROW STEM EDUCATION COMPETITION

 Mr. GARDNER. Mr. President, today I wish to congratulate a 
group of eighth-grade students at Horizon Middle School in Aurora, CO. 
Recently I met with Simon-Peter Frimpong and Grayson Fast who 
participated in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM Education 
Competition. Grayson, Simon-Peter, and their classmates were among just 
five grand prize winners out of more than 4,000 contestants nationwide. 
This competition brings together schools from across the country to 
encourage the use of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, 
STEM, to solve complicated problems. As a national winner of this 
competition, Horizon Middle School will receive funds to purchase 
cutting-edge technology for their school.
  To win this competition, the students at Horizon Middle School 
created a more comfortable and versatile prosthetic limb for a local 
veteran. Along with providing more comfortable everyday use, the 
students designed multiple attachments, including an attachment for a 
longboard, to allow him to participate in various activities. This 
project required enormous amounts of time and dedication, as well as an 
in-depth study of STEM disciplines. Along this journey, the students 
had the unending support of their teacher Melinda Possehl and the 
school's principal, Nichole Bell.
  Congratulations again to the students of Horizon Middle School on 
your outstanding accomplishment. I look forward to what the future has 
in store for these tremendously bright students.

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