Missoula, Montana’s Valley Christian students get electronics education

Students at Valley Christian School http://valleychristianschoolmissoula.org/ are learning to control and manipulate a tiny virtual ghost.

The electron, the "orbiting" particle of every single atom, is the key to even the most mundane things in the universe: a functioning light switch, hair standing on end in a lightning storm, AM radios.

And it’s the basis too of Wally Simmert’s electronics class, where students first learn about the elusive particle that drives both the cosmos and an iPod.

"They learn that what we do in class, we can apply to the world around us," said Simmert, who is a retired electrician and is in charge of the only full-on electronics class in Missoula County.

By JAMIE KELLY of the Missoulian

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