MASSENA — Some J.W. Leary Junior High School students have discovered the joys of communication using technology that’s more than 170 years old.
Seventh-grade social studies teacher Tony Cafarella has incorporated Morse code and ham radio into his class as an after-school activity. Students with parental permission, under the supervision of Mr. Cafarella, a licensed ham radio operator, can talk to various countries and log the contact on a map, gaining a sense of geography and science. They’re also learning from scratch how to interpret the dots and dashes of Morse code.
“I’m introducing the kids to a wider world and getting them used to different things like that,” Mr. Cafarella said.
Morse code was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse, who sent his first telegraph message from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore in 1844. The system assigns a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet to allow for simple transmission of…READ MORE
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