From: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>
Date: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:46:09 PM US/Eastern
To: "danmacisaac@mac.com" <danmacisaac@mac.com>
Subject: AAPT Update 2004 Number 2
Reply-To: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>
AAPT Update 2004 Number 2
This news summary is a service to our members and is from the Executive
Office of the American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park,
Maryland.
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MARCH 25 - PHYSICSBOWL DEADLINE
Enter your high school students in Physicsbowl 2004 and receive national
recognition for your school, your students, and your teaching
excellence.
The 40-question, timed, multiple-choice test can be taken in the period
April 8 - 21, 2004. For more information and an application, go to the
AAPT website http://www.aapt.org/Contests/physicsbowl.cfm .
Thursday, April 1 is the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 129th
AAPT National Meeting at California State University in Sacramento, CA,
July 31-Aug 4, 2004. The meeting theme is "Physics of Sports and the
Human Body." For information on Call for Papers, or to submit an
abstract, go to http://www.aapt.org/Events/call4papers.cfm .
An AAPT member who is a department chair of any university with a
graduate
physics program may nominate one teaching assistant (TA) who will then
be
awarded the AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The award
includes
a complimentary one-year student membership in AAPT. Deadline for
nomination is May 9, 2004. For more information go to http://www.aapt.org/Grants/outstandingta.cfm .
Entries are now being accepted for the 2004 High School Physics Photo
Contest. This contest has become so popular that a poster and a calendar
have been created from past winning entries. The Contest is open to all
high school students. The top 100 photographs will be exhibited and
judged
at the 129th AAPT National Meeting in Sacramento, CA, July 31-August 4.
All entries must be received by June 1.To learn more about the contest
and
rules to enter please go to http://www.aapt.org/Contests/photocontest.cfm
.
Don't forget to check the AAPT website to find out the spring meeting
schedule for your local AAPT section. There are currently 46 local
chapters, just go to http://www.aapt.org/Sections/index.cfm to find the
one nearest to you.
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The AAPT Updates are archived on the AAPT web site at http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/updates/
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Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
222SCIE BSC, 1300 Elmwood Ave , Buffalo NY 14222 USA 716-878-3802
<macisadl@buffalostate.edu> <http://PhysicsEd.BuffaloState.edu>