The Nashua Area Radio Society has been recognized as the 2019 Hamvention® Club of the Year. Below is the video of the announcement from the DX Engineering facebook page. The Club of the Year announcement starts at 10:00 into the video and don’t forget to click on the speaker icon to hear the sound.
The theme of this year’s Hamvention® is “Mentoring the Next Generation” and we won the award for our mentoring and youth outreach activities including:
- License Classes
- Tech Nights
- On the Air Activities
- Partnering with Schools to deliver Amateur Related STEM training including the High Altitude Balloon launches
- Partnering with Hudson Memorial School to contact astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor on the International Space Station
Here are some photos from some recent mentoring activities:
Thanks to all of our members who have put their time into helping the club to carry out these activities and for helping us to become Club of the Year. Thanks especially to Scott Andersen, NE1RD for getting us through the application process. Here is the writeup that we sent to the Hamvention® Awards team.
Here is the award announcement that has been published on the Hamvention® Website: https://hamvention.org/event-details/awards/
A special Thank You to the Dayton Hamvention® team for this recognition of our efforts.
Anita, AB1QB
