In 2022, AMSAT rolled out its community-based Youth Initiative Program which provides age-appropriate lessons about satellites for youngsters in two age groups, grades 5-7 and grades 8-12. In that first year, a grant from the Quarter Century Wireless Association helped get things going.

Three years later, as the initiative gathers even more momentum, Amateur Radio Digital Communication has announced that it is providing the initiative with two grants designed to enhance both of the student groups' learning experiences. One grant will allow production of a coloring book for the younger students, who are of elementary school age. The pages will depict satellites being used to aid in pollution control, wildfire fighting, broadcasting and navigation.

The other grant will help secure more software licenses for online courses for the older students, who are of high school age. The first course is called "Introduction to Satellite Meteorology," and visitors to Hamvention this past spring got a preview of its contents.

Central to the initiative are its two websites, KidzSat and BuzzSat, which contain age-appropriate activities for the younger and older students, respectively. The students also have access to a network of online software-defined radios they can use as ground stations for receiving images and telemetry from satellites making passes overhead.