Our Spring conference will be April 12-13, 2024 at Sierra College in Rocklin. Registration is at https://ncnaapt.org/event-registration/?ee=54. Annual dues are $20, which covers two meetings, food included. If you dues are current from our fall meeting, you will get an email with a coupon code for registration to this meeting. Our keynote speaker will be Dan Burns, who has spent decades improving physics education in Northern California and beyond. His career has spanned rocket engineering at Lockheed-Martin, high school physics teaching, and work at PASCO. He currently heads the PTSOS program that helps new (and not-so-new) physics teachers. We’ll have…
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The address for Contra Costa College is: 2600 Mission Bell RoadSan Pablo, CA 94806 You can find them on Google Maps at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xwygS98RVa94iiq67 Typically we hold the bulk of our meetings in GE-225. A campus map can be found at: https://www.contracosta.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Map-CCC-8.5-x-11_Current-2-2023.pdf
Our fall meeting will be at Contra Costa College on November 3/4. Registration is closed. You will still be able to pay at the door, but prior registration makes our food ordering go more smoothly. A Google Maps link to their location is: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xwygS98RVa94iiq67 On the night of Friday the 3rd we’ll gather for an optional social event at CCC’s planetarium for pizza. For our main event on Saturday we are happy to announce that we’ll have Clausell Mathis from Michigan State University and Tom Noddy (The Bubble Guy) as our invited speakers. In addition we’ll have share & tell,…
July 16 in Rocklin, close to AAPT National meeting Whether you are attending the AAPT National meeting in Sacramento or not, you are invited to attend the High School Teacher Camp—back in-person for the first time since 2018! The camp will be on Sunday, July 16 at Rocklin High School. The registration fee is $25, which includes breakfast and lunch. The camp is open to anyone who will be teaching at least one section of 9-12 physics in the 2023-2024 school year. There are usually a couple rounds of edcamp-style sessions where participants propose topics at the start of the…