Students are having a
great time trying to fly their self-designed and built radio controlled
models.
Warunya Thongrod
About 50 Pattaya students learned how to make
radio-controlled airplanes in a course sponsored by the city Education
Office.
The May 29-30 workshop at the Pattaya Sports Center
on Thepprasit Soi 7 featured four speakers from the Radio-Controlled
Airplane Modeler Sport Association. Lessons covered physics, airplane
models, infrastructure and tools.
On the second day, the kids tried their hands at
building small planes and attempted to put them in the air under
director of association advisory board President Dumrongyuth
Nanthapramod.
The 59 junior high students who participated were
chosen from all 11 Pattaya public schools.
“I had an amazing time in this training, I learned a
lot about airplanes and science. More than that, I got to try
controlling airplanes and want to encourage youths who haven’t chosen a
sport yet to try this because, apart from learning science, this focuses
your attention and is a very challenging sport as you need to use senses
and command your body to control the airplane as you want,” said
Kritnapong Munkhongdee, a Mathayom 2 student from Pattaya School No. 11.
Surapan Suwansak, a School No. 2 teacher, said the
training was not only fun for students but taught them about science,
inventing and electronics. It also honed their attention span and showed
them the importance of cooperation.
“The beauty of this sport is that children can invent
their own airplanes and tools, learn to economize, as the tools required
are cheap, and easy to find,” Dumrongyuth said. “I am very happy that
the children were genuinely interested and enthusiastic to learn because
this sport is not very popular in Thailand.”
