Fwd: AAPT Update 2004 Number 11

[Dan MacIsaac <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

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From: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>
Date: Wed Nov 10, 2004  11:51:33 AM America/New_York
Subject: AAPT Update 2004 Number 11
Reply-To: AAPT <aapt-memb@aapt.org>

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.


       TABLE OF CONTENTS
•       November 11 Early-Bird Registration Deadline
•       Volunteer at AAPT Winter Meeting
•       Future High School Physics Teacher Scholarship Deadline
•       AAPT Job Fair
•       Research in Freefall


NOVEMBER 11 EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Save money! The “early-bird” pre-registration deadline for the AAPT
Winter
Meeting January 8-12, 2005, in Albuquerque, NM is November 11. To
register, or to get more information, go to
http://www.aapt.org/Events/130th/index.cfm

AOL Link: <a href="http://www.aapt.org/Events/130th/index.cfm";>
Early-Bird Registration Deadline</a>


VOLUNTEER AT AAPT WINTER MEETINGS

Volunteer opportunities are available at our upcoming AAPT Winter
Meeting
in Albuquerque, NM January 8-12, 2005 for teachers and students. For
more
information go to http://www.aapt.org/Events/130th/index.cfm

AOL Link:
<a href="http://www.aapt.org/Events/130th/index.cfm";>Volunteering at
AAPT National Meetings</a>


FUTURE HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE

AAPT offers a $2,000 scholarship for future high school physics
teachers,
supported by an endowment funded by Barbara Lotze. Deadline is December
1.
Undergraduate students in, or planning to enter physics teacher
preparation programs and high school seniors planning to enter such
curricula are eligible. For more information on the scholarship, please
go
to
http://www.aapt.org/Grants/lotze.cfm

AOL Link: <a href="http://www.aapt.org/Grants/lotze.cfm";> Future High
School Teacher Scholarship</a>


AAPT JOB FAIR

AAPT will host a job fair for the physics education community, January
10-11 at the 2005 Winter Meeting in Albuquerque. Post your resume at no
charge. Employers can post available positions electronically, for a
fee.
Opportunities are available for employees to interview on site.  Look
for
information on our website about the career seminars scheduled during
the
Job Fair. For more information on the AAPT Job Fair go to
http://www.aapt.org/CareerCenter/JobFair/index.cfm

AOL Link: <a href="http://www.aapt.org/CareerCenter/JobFair/index.cfm
">AAPT Job Fair</a>


RESEARCH IN FREEFALL

Teachers, conduct experiments aboard NASA’s parabolic aircraft. Submit a
reduced-gravity physics experiment designed and built by your high
school
students. Deadline for submission is December 3, 2004. Winners will be
announced at the AAPT’s Winter Meeting. More information can be found at
http://www.physics2005.org/events/reducedgravity

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<a href="http://www.physics2005.org/events/reducedgravity";> Research in
Freefall</a>

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http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/updates/

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Archives</a>

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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>