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Washington School Project Going Well The SPRC's Special Project at the Washington Technology Magnet School has continued to introduce 7th and 8th grade students to radio and electronics. During the last few months, we have participated in the School Club Roundup, a contest for school clubs, as well as building a variety of simple projects. Currently, we are working on a Drawdio, which is a kidorientated device that illustrates resistance and capacitance. We have put together some homemade resistors and capacitors, and the Drawdio is a fun way to learn about them. We have also had fox hunts with homemade 3-element beams and offset attenuators. We have built "blinkys" to illustrate RC time constants, and we have made simple magnetic field sensors. Next year, the Washington program will move from it's current building to the Arlington Senior High building. The Arlington building is bigger and newer, and hopefully would be able to provide more space for us. But we don't know what that move will mean for our activities, so stay tuned for news.
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