I am also new to this forum, and I thought I would add my two cents’ worth to the topic of encouraging student enrollment in Physics. I teach at a tiny school (about 265 students in grades 6-12) where I am one of five science teachers. All our ninth graders take Conceptual Physics; I teach the only other Physics class, which is a trig-based but not AP level class for juniors and seniors. I always have one or two sections of this class, a good steady group every year. I agree with Deb that offering “fun” activities both in and out of the classroom is important to encouraging student interest. All of us science teachers also strive to make our work visible to the school. We do a lot of outdoor activities—we shoot air rockets; we push a pickup truck around the gym parking lot and drop bags of sand out the back; we plot courses to mystery destinations all over campus with compass and trundle wheel; we drop eggs off the top of the stands at the football field. Even inside the school building, we seldom stay confined to the classroom—we run constant-velocity cars up and down the halls; we set up ramps to race balls and cylindrical cans; we shake Slinkies that stretch for ten meters down every hall in the building; we run up and down the staircase to the bell tower at the chapel to measure work. All these activities attract attention, and the younger kids look forward to doing them when their day comes. We also photograph our kids at work, and post the pictures on bulletin boards and on our school intranet. We can’t offer the variety of courses and clubs that a larger school could, but we make it clear to the community that good stuff is going on in our classrooms—and the kids respond to it.