Hello, Pat and other AMSATers!
We are running a summer program for Brazilian exchange students until July 18th. Back in 2014, you visited Capitol College to convey cool AMSAT and ham wisdom to our students. We'd love to set up a visit with our 29 visiting students, if feasible. 3 of them already took the Technician's class exam and got their US ham licenses last month, and several of them are working on APRS beacons and satellite SDR and other projects. We're also building a networked SatNOGs antenna to talk to satellites, and are nearly done that project.
Would any of you be available to visit and talk with them? We changed our name (now 'Capitol Technology University') but we're still right up the road from GSFC, in Laurel, on 11301 Springfield Rd.
Hopefully, Sandy
Alex "Sandy" Antunes, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Astronautical Engineering Capitol Technology University aantunes@capTechU.edu
Hi Sandy,
So good to hear from you again. Thanks for your message!
Yes, of course. In fact, we can offer a "home and home" series for your students. That is, we can invite you and your company to our "new" hamshack facility at GSFC "Area 100" softball fields on Beaver Dam Road, about a mile east of Soil Conservation Service Rd -- and just south of Powder Mill Road, which you are very familiar with! And then I and others (hopefully including Dan Schultz, N8FGV, and some fellow Goddard Amateur Radio Club (GARC) members and AMSAT members) can descend upon Cap Tech U.
Sound good?
Also, do you know about "Escape Velocity 2016" this weekend just south of I-495 on the Potomac River? It is a grand STEM/STEAM event that you and your students ought to know about! I will be there with several AMSAT and GARC members within the several NASA exhibits there. Google the title or see if this works: http://escapevelocity.events/about/ ... If any of you can be spontaneous then I hope to see you there.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Pat N8PK
-----Original Message----- From: aantunes@captechu.edu [mailto:aantunes@captechu.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 11:16 AM To: amsat-dc@amsat.org Cc: Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680) patrick.l.kilroy@nasa.gov; Schultz, Daniel J. (GSFC-441.0)[GODDARD AMATEUR RADIO CLUB] n8fgv@amsat.org; kb3pmr@gmail.com Subject: AMSAT visit to Capitol?
Hello, Pat and other AMSATers!
We are running a summer program for Brazilian exchange students until July 18th. Back in 2014, you visited Capitol College to convey cool AMSAT and ham wisdom to our students. We'd love to set up a visit with our 29 visiting students, if feasible. 3 of them already took the Technician's class exam and got their US ham licenses last month, and several of them are working on APRS beacons and satellite SDR and other projects. We're also building a networked SatNOGs antenna to talk to satellites, and are nearly done that project.
Would any of you be available to visit and talk with them? We changed our name (now 'Capitol Technology University') but we're still right up the road from GSFC, in Laurel, on 11301 Springfield Rd.
Hopefully, Sandy
Alex "Sandy" Antunes, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Astronautical Engineering Capitol Technology University aantunes@capTechU.edu
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