{"id":41149,"date":"2025-07-18T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=41149"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:24:40","slug":"new-volunteer-rsgb-stem-champion-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/07\/18\/new-volunteer-rsgb-stem-champion-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New volunteer RSGB STEM Champion announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Board<\/strong><\/a> Director, Ben Lloyd, GW4BML has appointed Ian Stevenson, G3YNU as the volunteer RSGB STEM Champion.<\/p>\n<p>This new role fits with the RSGB\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/rsgb-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>strategy<\/strong> <\/a>to bring amateur radio to new audiences and to highlight the link between amateur radio and science, technology, engineering and maths.<\/p>\n<p>Ian brings a wealth of experience to this role having been a mathematics teacher for ten years, with a further 23 years in Higher Education as a Senior Lecturer in ICT and Education.<\/p>\n<p>Ian also played a pivotal role in establishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/schools-link-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB School Links Project<\/strong><\/a>, which introduced classroom activities that connect amateur radio with the school curricula. The project was established following <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/news\/principia-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tim Peake\u2019s Principia mission<\/strong> <\/a>to the International Space Station, which included ten UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ARISS<\/strong> <\/a>school contacts during Tim\u2019s time in space.<\/p>\n<p>In his new RSGB role, Ian is enthusiastic about fostering close ties with STEM organisations and STEM ambassadors across the UK, including those already engaged with the RSGB. If you\u2019d like to contact Ian to share suggestions that may enhance the RSGB\u2019s STEM outreach programme, you can contact him via <strong>stem.champion@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSGB Board Director, Ben Lloyd, GW4BML has appointed Ian Stevenson, G3YNU as the volunteer RSGB STEM Champion. This new role fits with the RSGB\u2019s strategy to bring amateur radio to new audiences and to highlight the link between amateur radio and science, technology, engineering and maths. Ian brings a wealth of experience to this role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41149","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41183,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41149\/revisions\/41183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}