First Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. R97@0762.01MKD
STATE OF COLORADO
BY SENATORS Rupert, Reeves, Alexander, Ament, Arnold, Blickensderfer, Chlouber, Coffman, Congrove, Dennis, Duke, Feeley, Hernandez, Hopper, Johnson, Lacy, Linkhart, Martinez, Matsunaka, Pascoe, Perlmutter, Phillips, Powers, Rizzuto, Schroeder, Tanner, Tebedo, Thiebaut, Wattenberg, Weddig, Wells, and Wham;
also REPRESENTATIVES Tupa, Allen, Arrington, Bacon,
Dean, Gotlieb, Keller, Saliman, Schauer, Sinclair, and S. Williams.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 97-19
CONCERNING THE COLORADO SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM.
WHEREAS, The need for improving science education
in the United States has been widely acknowledged in a variety
of recent education studies; and
WHEREAS, An effective and creative science curriculum
is necessary to prepare adequately students to live adaptive and
productive lives in an increasingly complex and technological
society; and
WHEREAS, The Colorado Space Grant Consortium, led
by the University of Colorado at Boulder, is striving to develop
a program that will team elementary, secondary, and postsecondary
students with teachers throughout the state for the purpose of
developing an earthorbiting satellite mission called the
"Citizen Explorer"; and
WHEREAS, Students in Colorado colleges and universities
are currently designing and prototyping the first citizen explorer
satellite; and
WHEREAS, The Colorado Space Grant Consortium involves
students from the following fourteen Colorado Colleges and Universities
across the state; University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
State University, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs,
Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, University of Southern
Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, University of Northern Colorado,
Western State College of Colorado, U.S. Air Force Academy, Pikes
Peak Community College, Adams State College, Colorado Northwestern
Community College, and Metropolitan State College of Denver;
WHEREAS, The proposed "Citizen Explorer"
mission will consist of an earthorbiting spacecraft that
will make scientific measurements of the earth, the earth's atmosphere,
and the sun; and
WHEREAS, This spacecraft will broadcast these measurements
continuously in a manner that students in schools participating
in the program will be able to receive and display for use in
various scientific studies; and
WHEREAS, The goal of the "Citizen Explorer"
mission is to integrate space science with elementary, secondary,
and postsecondary courses in order to increase students' awareness
of the earth's environment and to give students the opportunity
to engage in handson space research, thus stimulating their
interest in science; and
WHEREAS, Programs such as the "Citizen Explorer"
mission are essential to improve the quality of science education
in Colorado; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixtyfirst
General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives
concurring herein:
That we, the members of the General Assembly, commend
the efforts of the members of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium
in developing the "Citizen Explorer" mission and encourage
the Consortium to make the mission a reality.