{"id":14159,"date":"2023-01-27T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2023-01-26T22:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:21:28","slug":"elementary-school-students-in-raleigh-use-amateur-radio-to-talk-to-international-space-station-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2023\/01\/27\/elementary-school-students-in-raleigh-use-amateur-radio-to-talk-to-international-space-station-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary school students in Raleigh use amateur radio to talk to International Space Station (North Carolina)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students at&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpss.net\/brentwoodes\">Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering<\/a>&nbsp;in Raleigh got an out-of-this-world lesson in engineering using some old-school technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school was selected to take part in this year&#8217;s program called&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/amateur-radio-on-the-iss\/\">Amateur Radio on the ISS<\/a>. They connected through an amateur radio in Belgium to talk to astronauts living aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had to do a lot of explaining with our kids as far as this is not a Google meet,&#8221; explained Kristen McBryde, a STEM teacher and magnet coordinator at Brentwood Elementary. &#8220;This is a different kind of communication. But, it&#8217;s been really fun for our kids to start to understand it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; ABC11: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at&nbsp;Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering&nbsp;in Raleigh got an out-of-this-world lesson in engineering using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[74,75,165,4],"tags":[33,3582,130,36,925,1212],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ariss","category-education","category-news","category-newsreel","tag-ariss","tag-brentwood-elementary","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss","tag-north-carolina","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}