Honduras Mission Trip: Radio Repeater Project
The Lipscomb students decided to focus on this problem for this year’s Spring Break mission, hoping that by using their engineering skills to build the radio repeater, lives could be saved with efficient communication. The group, along with adult supervisors, had spent months preparing for the trip. They had to figure out exactly how tall the repeater needed to be, which mountain top would serve as its best home and whether the farthest reaching clinic would indeed be able to communicate with the addition of the tower. Running on solar energy, the group also had to determine how large a battery was needed to maintain solar power 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even during monsoon season. The engineering students joined more than six hundred students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends traveling throughout the world during this Spring Break with missions as their goal. The participants went to thirty different locations, with nine domestic (Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Miami, Panama City, Richmond and East Tennessee) and 21 international destinations. The number of participants and number of trips were both record-breaking this year.
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