SENATE RESOLUTION

                         1999-8635

By Senators Hale and Rasmussen

     WHEREAS, Intel Corporation has conducted a science talent search among high school seniors across the country, and this fifty-eight year old contest is often considered the Junior Nobel Prize of Science competition for United States high school seniors; and

     WHEREAS, Students in this competition are judged for their research ability, scientific originality, and creative thinking, and all entries are reviewed and judged by top scientists from a variety of disciplines; and

     WHEREAS, The forty finalists were selected from a group of 1,470 applications submitted by 566 high schools from across the country; and

     WHEREAS, Constance JoAnne Wang, a senior at Hanford High School in Richland, Washington, has been named as a finalist in the Junior Nobel Prize competition for her research on behavioral changes in crayfish; and

     WHEREAS, Constance, who is the daughter of Oliver and Maron Wang, has also demonstrated her interest in the legislative process by serving as a Senate page during the 1997 legislative session; and

     WHEREAS, Constance will be attending the Science Talent Institute in Washington, D.C. in March 1999, as the only finalist representing Washington State;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Washington State Senate honor Constance Wang for her hard work and impressive scientific achievement; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be immediately transmitted by the Secretary of the Senate to Constance Wang.

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate,

do hereby certify that this is a true and

correct copy of Senate Resolution 1999-8635,

adopted by the Senate February 26, 1999.

TONY M. COOK

Secretary of the Senate