[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 176 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1626]
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                       TRIBUTE TO GABRIEL MINTZER

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate Gabriel Mintzer, a senior at Valley High School in West 
Des Moines, Iowa, for earning a perfect score on his American College 
Testing (ACT) examination.
  Gabriel is one of only 2,235 students out of 2.1 million 2017 high 
school test-takers who earned this very rare honor. He was one of five 
students in his Valley High School class to earn the top composite 
score of 36, a milestone that had never before been reached in the 
school's history. He was able to accomplish this impressive feat while 
still remaining active in a number of extracurricular activities, 
including: co-founding and co-directing the Des Moines Student-to-
Student STEM Speaker Series, Science Bowl and Knowledge Bowl teams, 
Central Academy mathematics team, and treasurer of Valley High School's 
National Honors Society chapter.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend Gabriel for his hard-work, dedication, and 
commitment to excellence. I ask that my colleagues in the United States 
House of Representatives join me in congratulating Gabriel and in 
wishing him nothing but continued success in all of his future 
endeavors.

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