Date: Spring 2008
Recipient: Mark Spencer, WA8SME
Award: $3,250
Purpose: To develop and test a course for Amateur Radio Volunteer Instructors as a "train the trainer" pilot that will establish a model to improve licensing classes and share information for participating Volunteer Instructors to train other instructors in their home area.
Date: Summer 2008
Recipient: Eagle Scout Troop 272
Award: $1,135
Purpose: To fund equipment for electronic building projects at the 2008 Indiana Space Jamboree that will help scouts complete the electronics merit badge and serve other regional and national scout gatherings to introduce Amateur Radio.
Date: Fall 2008
Recipient: Ann Arbor (MI) Hands On Museum
Award: $ 3, 000
Purpose: To fund a permanent Amateur Radio Station operated by local hams, to provide interactive informal educational opportunities to 200,000 visitors annually, including a QSL card display, a visible roof-top antenna and rela time demonstrations of Morse Code and radio-controlled operations.
Date: Winter 2007
Recipient: Troop 32
Award: Challenge grant up to $2000
Purpose: To match $2000 in funds raised by Troop 32 to expand the Fox Hunt Project beyond the troop level to the area Camporee, with efforts to secure press coverage in Boys' Life magazine to reach young men and promote Amateur Radio.
Date: Spring 2007
Recipient: Matt Severin, N8MS
Award: $99.70
Purpose: To use funds from the Victor C. Clark Youth Incentive Fund to increase the number of area students who are licensed radio amateurs and to promote participation in community service events and to establish an Amateur Radio club in Berrien County.
Date: Spring 2007
Recipient: The Civil Air Patrol Communications Encampment
Award: $ 2,128.16
Purpose: To support the joint 9-day field training exercise of the North Florida Ranger School of the Civil Air Patrol and local Amateur Radio operators. The training includes Civil Air Patrol communications, Technician Class Amateur Radio licensing study and ARRL Level I emergency communications study.
Date: Spring 2007
Recipient: The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut
Award: $3,020
Purpose: To fund the excavation and erection of a tower to support donated antennas for an Amateur Radio station display in the museum.
Date: Fall 2007
Recipient: MOSI Amateur Radio Club
Award: $ 1,000
Purpose: To purchase additional equipment to complete an operating Amateur Radio station within the "Disasterville" exhibit at the Tampa (FL) Museum of Science and Industry which will provide public education to museum visitors and serve as a back up site during an emergency.