{"id":558,"date":"2022-11-06T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/?p=558"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T22:01:55","slug":"girls-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Girls in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv8733284442MsoNormal\">Mentors from the Brigerland Amateur Radio Club hosted a Girls in Space 10-week workshop with the goal to introduce amateur radio and STEM to girls ages 11-17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8733284442MsoNormal\">The result was 16 girls who participated in many hands-on activities including, soldering, Arduino programming,\u00a0 interfacing sensors, APRS, talking on HF and VHF\/UHF frequencies, and working amateur radio satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8733284442MsoNormal\">The activity culminated in a weather balloon launch, and payload recovery.\u00a0 They launched <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-563 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5001-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8733284442MsoNormal\">the balloon in Howell Utah and recovered it near Montpelier Idaho.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More than 15 mentors from the club participated.\u00a0 The club will repeat the project in 2023 with a mixed group of boys and girls. The project was funded by a grant from ARDC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9798-1-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9798-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_9798-1.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_4995-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-560\" src=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0003-1-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0003-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0003-1.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentors from the Brigerland Amateur Radio Club hosted a Girls in Space 10-week workshop with the goal to introduce amateur radio and STEM to girls ages 11-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-ga","category-youth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_0109-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arrlutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}