Youth on the Air Camp in the Americas - The Best Week Ever

How do you help young hams learn new skills, have fun on the radio and perhaps become leaders of amateur radio’s next generation? Bring them together for a week-long ham radio summer camp! Two of this year’s participants share their stories.

ABBY KIMI MATSUYOSHI, JACK ROBERTS

This past July, 29 campers from all over the US, Canada, and Argentina, along with guests from Germany and Croatia, met for a week at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to participate in the third annual Youth on the Air (YOTA) Americas camp (Photo A). YOTA camp is a weeklong summer camp for youth operators ages 15-25 from North, Central, and South America. The goal of the program is to build skills and foster lasting friendships and mentors with younger operators. Throughout the week, the focus is on hands-on, peerled activities. YOTA camp is different from other youth programs in that the campers share each other’s expertise whenever possible. The young hams are the ones setting up the shacks, deciding on and planning activities and outings, promoting the camp,…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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