From Hossein Partovi at Sacramento State: We have put aside a large collection of lab equipment (scopes, meters, supplies, light sources, PAACO interfacing devices, …) to give away to schools and colleges on Saturday, October 16, 2010 (in Room 138, Sequoia Building, i.e., first floor of the science building), 9-12 AM. You can preview them on Friday, October 8, 2010, 1-3 PM. If interested, please Print the attached acceptance letter (a “WORD” document) on your official letterhead, have it signed by your school or college official, and bring it with you on October 16th, and RSVP both October 8th and…
Author: Lee Trampleasure
Lee Trampleasure has been teaching for 25 years, and teaches Physics and Biology at Menlo-Atherton High School.
Save the dates! Our Fall 2010 meeting will be held on November 5th and 6th. The Saturday events will be at Carondelet High School in Concord, CA (close to I-680 and Pleasant Hill BART). We’re still working out the details for our Friday afternoon event, but we’ll have our usual social event somewhere local in the evening. Tentative Saturday schedule: 8:00 — Registration, coffee and goodies, socializing 9:00 — Welcome and Announcements 9:15 — Show and Tell (members have five minutes to present their favorite demonstration or teaching tip). 10:15 Break 10:30 — Invited speakers and other presentations. Noonish —…
A new feature on our web site will be a “What’s going on here?” post. Each month we’ll post an interesting question or device, and ask our members to make comments. The first person with the right answer gets bragging rights (or the voice of our web weaver, Lee Trampleasure, on your home answering machine if you’re a fan of “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me”). July 2010: Poly Density Kit Educational Innovations sells a “Poly Density Kit” shown in the video below: First the bottle is shaken, and all the beads mix uniformly. After the shaking stops, the blue beads…
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 (See complete Friday/Saturday agenda here) Contributed Papers, Video Clips & computer Bits – room 307 2:00 iFly Indoor Skydiving –Field Trips – Cailin Creighton A discussion of physics topics relating to skydiving, indoor skydiving, and the operation of vertical wind tunnels. Also, information on how to bring your students on a field trip to a vertical wind tunnel for an educational program that includes experiments, a lecture, a tour, and flying! 2:20 Wind Energy: A Sustainable Future? – Scott Perry Other than hydro-electric and nuclear power wind energy has been by far the most robust of…
NEED, Washington and Lee University, and the Lenfest Foundation are happy to announce the 2nd Nuclear Energy Conference for Educators, July 25- 29 2010. Up to 50 educators from across the country will be accepted to participate in this exciting training program in Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information or to apply, visit www.need.org/nuclear. The conference includes speakers and presentations from noted experts in the field, including Dr. Frank Settle of Washington and Lee University and Dr. Charles Ferguson of the Federation of American Scientists as well as NEED’s nuclear education team. The conference is a mix of presentations and hands-on…