Category Archives: STEAM

Girl Scouts STEM Support Needed

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Hello! We are looking for some volunteers to help with the STEM Fest hosted by Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts on Saturday May 3, 9 am – 1 pm at Camp Cedar Hill in Waltham, MA. The event is for Girl Scouts grades K-12, and no Girl Scout affiliation is needed to volunteer.

We will set up a station where Girl Scouts can learn about amateur radio and send a radiogram to their family, if they choose. It would essentially be a radiogram-centric GOTA station. Specific modes/bands would depend on who volunteers.

There’s a need for two types of helpers:

1. On-site volunteers who could help interact with Girl Scout troops, answer questions about amateur radio, and operate our equipment (or yours) to send radiograms out from the site.

2. At-home volunteers at their home stations during that time who could receive our radiogram messages and pass them further into NTS nets (or deliver them locally, if appropriate).

Please let me know if you are interested, and feel free to pass on this request to others. Constructive suggestions are always welcome.

Thanks and 73,

Jessie KC1SLQ

kc1slq@gmail.com

What the heck is that: ÄRTEN™ Workshops Continue …

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The ÄRTEN™ project held it’s fifth bi-weekly workshop on April 3, 2023 at FabNewport.  Project members and students from Pull It Apart! – FabNewport joined in a “What the heck is that?” gameshow to identify electronics gear stored in the hamshack closet at All Saints STEAM Academy.  SPOILER ALERT – from left to right the team identified an antenna rotator controller, a signal generator, a Heathkit® power supply and its matching amateur radio transceiver the venerable HW-101.

Glowing with gameshow success, project members then attempted to integrate an Ethernet-enabled CO2/Temperature/Humidity sensor from TEMCO Controls with a notebook controller.  Unfortunately, the aura of invincibility wore off and attempts to communicate with the device were unsuccessful; no habla IEEE 802.3!   Stay tuned.

Stem4Girls at Umass Dartmouth was awesome!

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The Newport County Radio club really stepped up big time.  Mike Cullen  supplied an FT-8 radio workshop that worked to several countries,  Our VP, Jim Sammons, filled in on a catapult workshop for a sick person and I had 2 folks from the club (Mary Nebilo and Dick Bianco) helping in the TinkerCAD/circuits Engineering workshop along with two EE graduate student ladies. Both Melissa and Onelis are in my Antenna Theory class so I have them to ask about homework and maybe a club question.  The Wrobles and Beth Cullen worked as chaperones.   Wonderful weather too.  Around 250 girls from grades 3 to 8 attended.

What an inspiration to the girls!

More details will be published here: STEM4Girls – The Kaput Center

73, Paul, K1YBE

Mike K1NPT Speaking to the Stem4Girls audience

Participants erecting antenna used for HF FT-8