{"id":14051,"date":"2016-01-08T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2016-01-08T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T12:54:47","slug":"school-buildathon-before-iss-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2016\/01\/08\/school-buildathon-before-iss-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"School Buildathon before ISS contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14052\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14052\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/01\/sandringham_buildathon.png\" alt=\"Pairs of students constructed receiver kits\" width=\"230\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/01\/sandringham_buildathon.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/01\/sandringham_buildathon-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The students constructed receiver kits<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, 5 January, RSGB Board Director Steve Hartley, G0FUW organised a buildathon at Sandringham School in conjunction with Verulam Amateur Radio Club (VARC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schoolreport\/35251991\" target=\"_blank\">space festival<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sandspace?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#SANDspace<\/a> build-up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-35261160\" target=\"_blank\">amateur radio contact<\/a> at the school with Tim Peake on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four pupils worked in pairs to build 12 RSGB\/Walford Electronics Rodway receiver kits and really enjoyed the experience.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers were impressed by the kit and the whole event and are keen to encourage more radio building activity at the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verulam-arc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">VARC<\/a> members David G3YYD, Roger G0RBK, David G4HHJ and Peter G4HSO helped the pupils wield their soldering irons during the activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 5 January, RSGB Board Director Steve Hartley, G0FUW organised a buildathon at Sandringham School in conjunction with Verulam Amateur Radio Club (VARC) It was part of the space festival #SANDspace build-up to the amateur radio contact at the school with Tim Peake on Friday morning. Twenty-four pupils worked in pairs to build 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-principia-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}