[SECC] Youth CW Academy

[Kevan Nason]

Thanks John. Passed it along to a couple others.

Kevan
N4XL

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:38 PM, John Laney <k4bai at att.net> wrote:

>
> Pass on to your local clubs,,,   TNX  de Dallas K1dw
>
>     From: k6rb58 at gmail.com
>     Youth CW Academy
>
>     The CWops club has added a new program to its popular CW Academy. For
>     young people between 11 and 19 years old, there is a Youth CW Academy
>     program focused on them. They learn in age-peer groups using the same
>     method from CWA. The key advantage is they learn with other kids and
> are
>     encouraged to get on HF CW and participate in contests and to ragchew
>     with their age peers. CWops conducted two pilot semesters of YCWA and
> it
>     works.
>
>     If you know someone in that age group who is interested in attaining CW
>     skills and on-air competence, have them go to the regular CWA signup
>     page: http://cwops.org/cwa-student-su.html
>
>     There is a field for indicating age under 20 and another field for
>     entering one's age. If the under-20 field is asserted ("yes" reply),
> the
>     application is automatically routed to YCWA for assignment. CWops is
>     working very hard to keep CW vibrant. In 7 years, the beginner,
>     intermediate and advanced courses have served over 5000 learners. Now,
>     we are focused on increasing the number of younger CW operators and
>     getting the increasing average age of hams to stop and begin going down
>     from its current 60+ years.
>
>     If you have any questions, email me (k6rb58 at gmail.com).
>
>     Rob K6RB
>
>
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