{"id":44670,"date":"2026-01-14T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=44670"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:55:14","slug":"school-organises-stem-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/school-zone-stories\/2026\/01\/14\/school-organises-stem-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"School organises STEM conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44671\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44671\" class=\"wp-image-44671\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/G3OSL-revival-at-Simon-Langton-Boys-School-Canterbury-1.png\" alt=\"Photo of Simon Langton Boys School students from the G3OSL revival in 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/G3OSL-revival-at-Simon-Langton-Boys-School-Canterbury-1.png 1009w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/G3OSL-revival-at-Simon-Langton-Boys-School-Canterbury-1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/G3OSL-revival-at-Simon-Langton-Boys-School-Canterbury-1-150x114.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/G3OSL-revival-at-Simon-Langton-Boys-School-Canterbury-1-768x582.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the revival of the G3OSL call sign in 2024<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/thelangton.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys<\/strong><\/a> is having a \u201cWhat is my STEM future\u201d conference on 21 January for Canterbury school pupils aged between 10 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>The event aims to give students a sense of what Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is, and to help them plan for their futures. The school already has an active amateur radio club, which operates as G3OSL.<\/p>\n<p>The programme for the STEM conference includes four workshops, which are all being run by sixth form students from Simon Langton school. One of the sessions will be on amateur radio and <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/morse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Morse<\/strong><\/a>, and will include an opportunity for students to operate G3OSL under supervision. Listen out on Wednesday 21 January G3OSL between 10.00 and 13.00 when students will be active using CW on the 20m and 40m bands.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics in the programme include a talk by Becky Kalam on \u201cWhat is STEM?\u201d in relation to her role at Playground Games, a video games company.<\/p>\n<p>Several sixth form students at the school are currently studying for their <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Foundation<\/strong> <\/a>exam, which they hope to take before the end of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys is having a \u201cWhat is my STEM future\u201d conference on 21 January for Canterbury school pupils aged between 10 and 13. The event aims to give students a sense of what Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is, and to help them plan for their futures. The school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-zone-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670","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=44670"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44678,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44670\/revisions\/44678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}