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Author: Lee Trampleasure

Lee Trampleasure has been teaching for 25 years, and teaches Physics and Biology at Menlo-Atherton High School.

Proposal for new dues structure for 2014

Update: This proposal passed by membership at our April 12, 2014 meeting.

Currently our annual dues are $25 and we charge meeting fees of $20 (includes lunch). We waive fees for first-timers at our meetings (but new members still pay $10 for lunch). It has been noted that some institutions will pay for meeting fees, but not membership dues. To account for this, the following structure is being proposed:

  • $25—Corresponding Membership—Designed for people who wish to be members, but don’t come a meeting in a given academic year.
  • $45—Fee for Fall Meeting—Includes membership + lunch ($10 discount for first-timers)
  • $45—Fee for Spring Meeting— Includes membership + lunch ($10 discount for first-timers, $25 for people who attended Fall)

Program for November 15-16 2013 conference at Carondelet HS

The program for our Fall 2013 section conference is now available in PDF format. We should have a web page version up shortly, but here’s the PDF  in the mean-time. Map of locations: View NCN AAPT at Carondelet High School in a larger map with key to locations. Don’t forget, registration is encouraged (helps us plan for how many will attend), but not mandatory. Register here.

Accelerometers and Great America: Here’s your ‘permission slip’

Last year, after more than a decade of bringing students (and their accelerometers) to Great America, Phillip Becker of Saint Helena High School was shocked to be informed by park staff that students would not be allowed to bring their accelerometers on the rides. Disappointment ruled the day, but his students made the best of it. Upon returning to school, Mr. Becker typed out a to-the-point letter to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (the parent company for Great America), expressing his outrage at this change in policy. Shortly thereafter, Cedar Fair Entertainment replied, with a letter notifying him that there had…