Discover Engineering in Central Texas

A great activity for kids in 6^th through 12^th grade is to get them involved with amateur radio. Usually the start off on this is to bring an amateur radio in and show them what is happening across the frequency spectrum (usually with a frequency spectrum FCC allocation map to correlate.) A good handheld transmitter/receiver pair is also fun.

For those interested in more, most Amateur Radio clubs in the area give classes which cover the electronic basics and Morse code that is necessary to obtain a Ham radio license. If there are enough that sign up at a school, the clubs will go to the school to give the class. Costs for their own radio station is fairly inexpensive and this has been a great way to get people involved and interested in electronics. Some of these kids then grow up to become great electronic engineering designers.ÂÂ

Thanks to Gene Frederiksen in Oregon for providing this activity idea.