3D Printing provides a way to design and print objects and parts that can range from fun fidgets to parts and components for engineering projects. We'll learn some basics of 3D printing and designing 3D models and have opportunities for members to submit their own items to a printer to become real.

We'll be learning how to use ham radio can be used to communicate through satellites and the international space station.

We'll have our holiday party, enjoy some food and playing some STEM/Ham themed games like Morse Code hangman.

Always a favorite activity each year... we'll be playing a new escape room designed around ham radio and RF STEM themes.

ARRL's School Club Roundup event is happening this week, so we'll be getting on the air and making as many contacts with other schools and youth clubs around North America as we can.

This meeting will allow our 4-H youth to showcase maker projects they've been working on recently including things like robotics, electronics projects/kits, self-designed 3D projects, etc.

We're planning to take our learned experience from our failed pico balloon launch in 2024 and try again to launch and track a pico balloon as it circumnavigates the earth.

"Height is Might" when it comes to VHF radios. The higher you can get, the farther you can talk. Summits on the Air takes this concept and joins it with hiking to score points for activating hills/mountains by making contacts with other hams from the summit.

We'll have a new set of soldering kits ready to build to learn and practice soldering techniques.

Field Day is ham radio's open house. Every June, more than 40,000 hams throughout North America set up temporary transmitting stations in public places to demonstrate ham radio's science, skill and service to our communities and our nation. It combines public service, emergency preparedness, community outreach, and technical skills all in a single event. Field Day has been an annual event since 1933, and remains the most popular event in ham radio.

The exact build kit we'll be doing is TBD, but make be some foxhunt attenuators for the following month's hidden radio transmitter "fox hunt".

With another 4-H year coming to an end, we'll gather for our annual end of summer potluck and fox hunt! "Fox hunts" are a favorite club activity involving hiding a small radio transmitter/beacon that the club races to find using direction antennas radio receivers.