New England Sci-Tech and the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society will sponsor Kit Building workshops throughout Friday and Saturday in the Hotel Atrium at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. A total of eight one-hour sessions are scheduled to be held.
“Beginners who need soldering instruction and practice are welcome to join us to build an easy beginner kit in under an hour. New England Sci-Tech volunteers will help anyone age 10 and up learn how. Choose from several kits – Morse Code Oscillator, Blinky Name Badge, Night Light, Spinning Top, FM Music Receiver. All kits were invented by students! Price per kit is between $5-$10, cash only. See our web site for details: <http://nescitech.org/hamx>.”
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.