{"id":9422,"date":"2014-01-21T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2014-01-21T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:11:54","slug":"youngsters-air-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2014\/01\/21\/youngsters-air-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"YOTA 2014 Team Leader Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\">RSGB Board<\/a> has given its approval for the Society to send a team to the IARU Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event in July. The event is held in July every year in a Region 1 country and brings together young radio amateurs from 15 member societies. This year it is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sral.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Finnish Radio Amateur League<\/a>. Previous events have included workshops on antenna building, satellites, ARDF, and robots as well as some on-air sessions and cultural visits. More details about YOTA can be found on their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ham-yota.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ham-yota.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All RSGB members within the age range stipulated by the event organisers (15-25) are being sent a personal invitation to apply for a place on the UK team. Applications need to be submitted to the Training and Education Committee Chair by 14th of February and the team will be selected by a panel made up from the RSGB Board members.<\/p>\n<p>Funds have been secured such that this will be an expenses paid trip for four young members and a Team Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Could you be the Team Leader? The Society is looking for someone to lead the UK team. That person may be over 25 but will preferably be a young teacher or other type of experienced youth leader. If you think you could fulfil that role, please contact the Chair of the Training and Education Committee via tec.chair@rsgb.org.uk<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the level of interest, the Training and Education Committee may set up a one-day, or weekend event in the UK to link up with the guys in Finland and to do more for younger amateurs. Depending on its success this could become an annual event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Board has given its approval for the Society to send a team to the IARU Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) event in July. The event is held in July every year in a Region 1 country and brings together young radio amateurs from 15 member societies. This year it is hosted by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422","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=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}