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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The Cedar Park High School Destination Imagination |
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team took high honors at the state Destination Imagination event to |
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advance to the global competition to be held in Knoxville, |
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Tennessee; and |
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WHEREAS, Destination Imagination is an international program |
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that promotes cooperation and creative problem solving among |
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students; teams compete to find innovative solutions to a variety |
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of challenges; and |
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WHEREAS, Calling themselves Diving Cheese, the seven |
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talented students on the Cedar Park team took first place in the |
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critical-thinking problem-solving category for a community service |
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project for which they collected more than 2,600 coloring books and |
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DVDs for patients at Dell Children's Medical Center; they also won |
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first-place honors in the theatrical category for producing a |
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five-minute movie, writing a presentation, and designing their own |
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set and costumes; additionally, they won second place in Project |
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Extreme; and |
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WHEREAS, The members of Diving Cheese, who are defending |
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Cedar Park's 2012 Destination Imagination world championship, |
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include Nico Hawes, Catherine Jordan, Lindsey Koski, Jeremy Martin, |
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Lindsey Stawowy, and Connie Zhao, with Amy Koski serving as team |
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manager; and |
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WHEREAS, Diving Cheese is a source of great pride to the Cedar |
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Park High School community, and it is indeed a pleasure to honor the |
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team on its latest achievement; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas |
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Legislature hereby congratulate the Destination Imagination team |
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from Cedar Park High School on its first-place finish at the state |
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competition and extend to the team's members best wishes for |
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success at the Global Finals in Knoxville; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for the team as an expression of high regard by the Texas |
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House of Representatives. |
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Dale |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 2697 was adopted by the House on May |
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24, 2013, by a non-record vote. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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