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AAPT National meetings through February 2017

Lee Trampleasure Lee Trampleasure
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If you are interested in planning your vacations around AAPT National Meeting/Conferences (or if you’d just like to attend), here are the upcoming dates and locations (note that in July 2016 it will be in our section!):

  • AAPT logoWinter 2015: San Diego, 3-6 Jan 2015
  • Summer 2015: College Park, Md, 25-29 Jul 2015
  • Winter 2016: New Orleans, 9-12 Jan 2016
  • Summer 2016: Sacramento, 16-20 July 2016
  • Winter 2017: Atlanta, 18-21 Feb 2017

Note that Winter Meetings are now four days, and Summer Meetings are five days. The first two days of summer meetings are generally workshops; for the Winter Meetings the workshops have been limited to one-and-a-half days.

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Registration for August PTSOS Now Open!

David Marasco David Marasco
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The next PTSOS meeting will be on August 23 at Los Gatos High School from 9 to 4.

Our format is informal, flexible, and friendly. We like to think that everyone leaves the workshop with something they can use right away in their classrooms. Most of the teachers who attend teach regular high-school physics, but we also see many AP Physics teachers, college physics teachers, junior-high physical-science teachers, and even math, chemistry, and biology teachers.

Thanks to our generous benefactors (especially the Karl Brown family), the workshop is free, including a free, onsite lunch and coffee and doughnuts.

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Forces and Interactions: NGSS for Physics and Physical Science Teachers

Lee Trampleasure Lee Trampleasure
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This is not exactly in our backyard, but worth two weeks if  you can make it.

June 16-27, 2014        M-F         9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Physics department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls and the American Association of Physics Teachers’ PTRA program have provided in service teachers with high quality, in depth, and useful educational experiences for nearly 30 years. 

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EinsteinPLUS Teacher Workshop

Lee Trampleasure Lee Trampleasure
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EINSTEINPLUS is a one-week intensive workshop for Canadian and international high school teachers that focuses on modern physics including quantum physics, special relativity, and cosmology. EINSTEINPLUS also provides unique opportunities to learn some of the latest developments in physics from expert researchers at the forefront of human knowledge, enjoy lab tours and take part in social events with like-minded teachers from around the globe. WHEN AND WHERE? July 6-12th 2014 at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario Canada. Complete information here (PDF)