Michigan Section of the AAPT

The Michigan Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers is dedicated to promoting excellence in physics education in the state of Michigan and to supporting physics educators statewide.

This organization shall endeavor to advance the knowledge of physics; to improve the teaching of physics; and to interest an increasing number of young people in making a career of physics

Fall Meeting Registration

2011 Fall Meeting - October 7 and 8, 2011

University of Michigan Dearborn

Featured speaker: Dr. Kevin Lee (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

We are honored to welcome Dr. Kevin Lee as our featured speaker. He is currently leading a group of artists and programmers who are developing astronomy education materials including online labs, in-class think-pair-share questions, and assessment tools such as ranking tasks. Kevin is a member of the NASA/JPL Center for Astronomy Education's CATS (Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars) team centered at the University of Arizona.

For more information and the full program go to the Meeting Page.

News

AAPT Winter Meeting

From Mary Mogge, Southern California Section Rep.

The 2012 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) will be February 4th - 8th at the Convention Center in Ontario California.

It should be a great meeting - and a great mid-winter break in Southern California. I'll be providing additional information from time to time as the dates get closer, but you might also want to bookmark the website listed below.

If you are planning to submit a contributed paper or poster, the deadline is October 3rd. For more details, including guidelines for preparing an abstract, go to the meeting webpage http://www.aapt.org/Conferences/wm2012/

Hope to see you all there.

Posted Sep 9, 2011 1:36 AM by Steve Dickie

MIAAPT on Facebook

Brad Ambrose has created a Facebook Group for the MIAAPT. If you're one Facebook you should join the group. This can be a great place to ask questions, get help, or even keep up on what the MIAAPT is doing.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/156771657721956/

Posted Sep 2, 2011 1:55 AM by Steve Dickie

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