[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16990-16991]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING AMIR ABO-SHAEER

  (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise with great pride this morning to 
congratulate Amir Abo-Shaeer from Goleta, California. Mr. Abo-Shaeer 
was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship Grant for his tremendous work at Dos 
Pueblos High School as an engineering and physics teacher. He also 
established and leads the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, which 
competes annually in the Robotics World Championship, entitled FIRST.
  For the last 2 years, the Dos Pueblos High School team, half of which 
are young women, has been awarded the Motorola Award for the best 
designed robot at the competition. Mr. Abo-Shaeer is the first public 
school teacher to win this prestigious award and a powerful testament 
to the importance of science and math education in our schools. His 
innovative, challenging, and outside-the-box teaching style is exactly 
what we need to create and inspire the next generation of American 
engineers, scientists, and innovators.
  On behalf of the entire Santa Barbara community, I want to send the 
heartiest congratulations to this dedicated public servant.

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