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Importance of Amateur Radio in Schools

Posted: 15 Aug 2021 08:01 AM PDT https://stationproject.blog/2021/08/15/amateur-radio-in-schools-important/

Satellite Contact at Sussex County Charter School for Technology

It is vitally important that we make efforts to bring Amateur Radio to
young people in schools and other venues. When we spend time bringing
Amateur Radio to young people, we accomplish two important things. First,
we have the potential to change a young person’s life for the better by involving them in Amateur Radio, a hobby and a service that inspires a
lifetime of STEM learning and often leads to lifelong careers in Science or Engineering.

Secondly, our work in schools is one of the very best ways that we can make
the general public aware of the positive benefits that Amateur Radio
provides to their kids and to the general public…

Source: Importance of Amateur Radio in Schools

In my role as an ARISS Program Mentor, I recently had the pleasure of
spending a week with Sussex County Charter School for Technology students
and teachers to help teachers there to deliver their summer Radio Camp.

The summer Radio Camp was a STEM education program that the school
developed in support of their upcoming contact with an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS). Members of the local Sussex County
Amateur Radio Club teamed with the teachers at the school to deliver a
5-day program grounded in STEM learning through Amateur Radio.

You can read more about the activities that we did at the week-long summer Radio Camp via the link above.

Fred, AB1OC

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