Come and hear a discussion on how you can revitalize the youth participation in your club with an activity that allows students between the ages of 11 and 18 to launch a small project on a NASA sounding rocket at the Northeast HamXposition on Saturday at 2 PM. Bob Phinney, K5TEC, along with several students who launched their project from Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, will present.
Bob Phinney, K5TEC, retired from 38 years of teaching at a private school in Brookline, MA. He taught after-school STEM classes, radio and electronics courses, classical LATIN, math, photography, and science. In 2014 he founded New England Amateur Radio, Inc. (NE1AR), a non-profit to develop wireless educational curricula, as well as provide regular or on-call VE sessions. In 2018 he founded New England Sci-Tech, a non-profit STEM education center that teaches electronics and wireless communications with an emphasis on getting youth into the amateur radio hobby.