Taking Amateur Radio into Gauteng schools

The South African Radio League (SARL) is working with the Sci Bono Science Discovery Centre and the Gauteng Provincial Department of Education to take amateur radio into technology high schools and by overlapping the Class B syllabus with the Grade 10 and 11 Electrical Technology curriculum.

The project will involve 82 schools and 88 teachers in the province. The plan is to train teachers to qualify as radio amateurs by the end of the year and to introduce the revised Electrical Curriculum to Grade 10 learners from 2010.

The SARL Council at its recent strategy indaba agreed with the concept in principle and appointed a subcommittee to study the proposals and implications.

On the subcommittee are the councillor for youth activity and education Gerhard Coetzee, ZS3TG, the RAE Manager, Mark Zank, ZS6YES, and the councillor for Regulatory Affairs and Marketing, Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV.
The subcommittee met this week with Chris Gryffenberg, ZS6COG, DCES: Electrical Technology of the Gauteng Education Department.

The first step is to prepare a memorandum of understanding which is expected to be discussed at the next Council meeting in early June.

The South African Radio League