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IN SR0024

Resolution

Status

Passed

1/30/2012

Primary Sponsor

Travis Holdman

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Recognizes South Adams High School and South Adams School Corporation for developing the "Dots in Blue Water: Making a World of Difference" project to deliver water purifiers to Haiti

  • Project involved students designing and assembling automobile battery-powered water purification units to convert impure water to drinkable water, with students learning engineering, chemistry, and electricity concepts

  • School corporation-wide effort included science units on electrochemistry and microbiology, language arts essays on Haiti, foreign language translation work, math cost analysis, and music and art promotion activities

  • Project team assembled five water purifiers and installed two in Haiti: one in Chambrun village serving 5,000 people and one at a school serving over 400 students; additional purifiers installed in Bouzi village and near Port-au-Prince

  • Senate directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit a copy of the resolution to the teachers and eight students involved in the project

Legislative Description

Recognizing South Adams H.S. & Corp. on their work "Dots in Blue Water: project.

Last Action

First reading: adopted voice vote

1/30/2012

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