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Scouts talk climate change at Jamboree
By BLAINE CRIMMINS, Staff writer
The Lake Area Amateur Radio Klub sponsored Jamboree On The Air for local Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts on Saturday at the LDS Church in The Colony.
The Jamboree is an opportunity for Scouts from all around the world to communicate with one another through amateur radio. In addition to sharing ideas, cultures, and customs, Scouts had the opportunity to discuss an annual topic. This year's discussion was about climate change.
This is the 52nd annual Jamboree in the United States and is considered the largest in the world, with over 500,000 scouts participating annually.
"While there were many Jamboree On The Air locations all over the DFW area and beyond (not to mention the rest of the world), we had one of the most successful ones in the local area," Macy said. "It wasn't as big as the Jamboree On The Air Extravaganza that was held at the National Scouting Museum in Irving, but it went really well for our small radio club."
Macy estimated they had about 100 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts come through the doors. He said many of the children enjoyed building their own electronic Morse Code tone generators while others had a good time using a handheld radio and a directional antenna to find a hidden radio transmitter, aka foxhunting.
Others simply reached out to fellow Scouts.
"Lots of Scouts got on ham radios and talked to other local Scouts and Scouts across the USA and Canada. We heard Scouts from countries much further away," Macy said.
Nine Boy Scouts took and passed their Radio Merit Badges on Saturday.
In addition, four Cub Scouts from The Colony were selected with 19 other boys from North and Central Texas to go to the National Scouting Museum and ask an astronaut aboard the International Space Station a question. They were selected via a contest for the best questions submitted.
"Unfortunately, the radio station in Hawaii that provided the link from the Scouting Museum to the Space Station was unable to make contact with the station," Macy said. "We did, however, hear the astronaut ... calling them several times, and that was very neat in itself."
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