Subj : ARRL Teachers Institute - Multiplying the Message
To : QST
From : ARRL de WD1CKS
Date : Fri Jun 13 2025 07:40 pm
06/13/2025
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio� [1]welcomed the year's first
cohort of educators to attend a session of the ARRL Teachers Institute on
Wireless Technology (TI)[2] at headquarters this week. The group follows on the
success of the Louisiana-based session last week, and one on Staten Island in
New York City this past in January.
The educators traveled from all over the country to attend and learn how to
take radio and wireless technology back into the classroom as part of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons. Many of the teachers
took and passed their amateur radio license exams during the week, including
Professor Charnell Long, Ph.D. She is a professor at North Carolina A&T
University who works with pre-service educators to become certified teachers.
She hopes to be a multiplying force for the information.
"It was fun to me," said Long. "It is an opportunity to deep dive into radio in
ways I never have before." She will incorporate the hands-on training into her
courses at the university. Long learned about the program when ARRL Education
and Learning Manager Steve Goodgame, K5ATA, exhibited TI at the National
Science Teachers Association convention[3].
"I see value in bringing [my students] scientific skills," said Long. Goodgame
is encouraged by the reach just one participant in TI could have. "We're always
excited to get educators hands-on with radio, but especially those who take
what they learn here and go back and teach it to other educators," he said.
Professor Long is one microcosm of ARRL's focus on multiplying the reach of
TI's impact. The ARRL Board of Directors voted unanimously in July 2024 to
authorize taking the high-quality education of TI to communities around the
country. Increasing the number of teachers and therefore students reached by
the training is one peg in the mission to inspire the next generation of radio
amateurs.
While Professor Long and the other newly-minted radio amateurs in the cohort
wait for their call signs to be issued, they continue to get hands-on with
radio. Thursday's session was focused on software-defined radios. "To see these
educators have fun learning new things is a real boost, not only to the ARRL
Education and Learning Department, but the future of ham radio as well," said
Goodgame.
[1]
http://www.arrl.org/ti
[2]
http://www.arrl.org/ti
[3]
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-learning-and-education-programs-in-front-of-15-000-science-teachers
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