Re: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Discovery Project: Which Mission Next?

["George Hoffman" <rainbow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tim Cunningham" <tim_cunningham@mindspring.com>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Discovery Project: Which Mission Next?


>
> >Why is a child more deserving of a contact with an astronaut then an
adult?
>
> The biggest question is how does one move forward and bring
> Amateur Radio into the schools?  Perhaps, we could all benefit from
> a 101 class on how to do it and make it successful.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts, ideas, or approaches that they have
> used to bring Amateur Radio into the schools?  Who did you contact at
> the schools?  What made it successful or unsuccessful?  Where did you
> get your material to talk to the class?
>
> Any thoughts would be helpful to all of us.
>
>
> Tim - N8DEU
> Huntsville, Alabama
>
Right on Tim !

You might look in the September 2000 issue of 73 Magazine.  Three good
articles,   "Ham Ambassadors" by WB6NOA ,"School's In" by WA9PYH, and "Adopt
a School" by N7MGT.  Wayne Green is still in there pitching.

George,  W2CID

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