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Spring Section Conference

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Our spring 2011 Spring Conference has two components:

Highlights:

Friday Evening Social

April 22: San Mateo High School

  • Hot Dog Reception
  • Tour of new biotech wing
  • “My Favorite Movie Clips” presented by Adam Weiner and Paul Robinson

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Saturday Mini-Conference

April 23: Exploratorium, San Francisco

  • Show and Tell
  • Invited speaker, Adam Weiner: “Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies”
  • Brief business meeting
  • “A Physics Teachers’ Guided Tour of the Exploratorium” by Paul Doherty
  • Contributed presentations

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Renewable Energy Workshop at UC Berkeley, March 5-6, 2011

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The workshop is sponsored by the AAPT as well as the APS Forum on Physics and Society as well as the new APS Topical Group on Energy Research and Applications. It will be held March 5-6 at UC Berkeley (Evans Hall 10). The workshop should be of interest to faculty who wish to introduce energy topics into their courses as well as advanced students who might be interested in some aspect of energy research. A similar course organized three years ago was considered a great success. Participants will receive a book of the talks presented. REGISTER SOON. We sold out…

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Modeling Workshop

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20 educators attended the afternoon “Introduction to Modeling” workshop lead by Lee Trampleasure and Jon Rockman. Educators were lead through the development of one of the Modeling “paradigm labs.”  The lab used constant velocity cars to develop position vs time data that could be graphed to determine the average velocity of the cars. After groups graphed their data, they created whiteboard presentations of their results. After a discussion of the results, Lee presented data from his classes this year, showing the results of 20 student groups. For more information on Modeling Instruction, visit modeling.asu.edu.

Fall Mini-Conference Share n Tell

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At every section meeting one of our most popular portions is the Share n Tell during which participants have five minutes to share a demo, idea, concept, book, problem, example, etc. Talkative participants must fear the dreaded gong at the end of five minutes. Below please find notes and relevant links from the special double session of Share n Tell from our Fall NCNAAPT Section Meeting and mini-conference: Don Payne, Carondelet High School A Piezo Electric popper (spark fed) has been adapted to drive a small toy car. A film canister is filled with either  ethanol or Bonaca breath spray.…

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Fall Section Event/Meeting: November 5th & 6th, 2010, Concord, CA

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You are invited to our Fall 2010 Mini-conference / Meeting, Friday and Saturday, November 5th & 6th. Friday afternoon/evening Program Join us for a tour and presentation on some of the cutting edge energy research being conducted at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. 5:00-6:30 PM 2800 Mitchell Drive Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Social Food and drink (no host) and socializing at one of the Bay Area’s quality brewpubs. 7:00-9:00 PM Pyramid Alehouse, Brewery & Restaurant 1410 Locust Street Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Saturday, November 6th Mini-conference and Meeting 7:45-3:00 Carondelet High School 1133 Winton Drive (@ Treat) Concord, CA 94518…

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