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Spring Meeting at Sierra College April 13, 2024

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…

Contra Costa College Maps

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

Fall 2023 Meeting – Nov 3/4 at Contra Costa College

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,…

Save the Date – Fall Meeting!

Conditions permitting, we will have our Fall 2021 meeting at Contra Costa College in November. We will have a social event on the night of Friday the 5th and a full day on Saturday the 6th. Our invited speakers will be author Mary Roach and Dave Rakestraw from LLNL. You can register at https://ncnaapt.org/event-registration/?ee=49. Note that if your dues are current, you should have been emailed a coupon code for free registration.