2010 SPRING MEETING AT LASALLE UNIVERSITY

How we teach may be more important than WHAT we teach...

The 2010 Regional AAPT Conference was held on March 12 and 13 at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. Participating sections were Southeastern Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Many thanks to Ling Liang of LaSalle University, for all her efforts making this a successful meeting!

Here is a picture summary of the meeting:


Pre-conference PTRA Workshop led by Pat Callahan and Dave McCachren: "Teaching Physics with Video Analysis"


Posters


Invited Speaker Derrick Pitts of the Franklin Institute Science Museum and SEPA President Jay Bagley


Ling Liang and Jay Bagley


Invited Speaker Warren Hein, AAPT Executive Officer: "The Physics Departments role in the preparation of pre-college physics teachers: An update on the PhysTec project"


Invited Speaker Matt Greenwolfe, President elect, American Modeling Teacher's Association: "Don't Hide the Model! High School Students and Computational Modeling with Vpython"


Contributed talk: Tiaberiu Dagoru-Luca and Joe Spacavento from NJ section, "Shhh ... We Built a Nuclear Accelerator"


Contributed talk: Fran Poodry, "Rotational Kinematics Video Analysis"


Contributed talk: Jeff Wetherold, "Gravity is Behaving Normally"


Contributed talk: Barry Feierman, "Audio Spectra of Homemade Musical Instruments"


Contributed talk: Gary Gordon, "50th Anniversary of TIROS"


Contributed talk: Liz Chesick, "Newton's II Law: Spirit of Modeling"


Contributed talk: Tom Gordon, "Factors Associated with Friction"


Audience at a Parallel Session: Contributed Talks


Art Zadrozny gives financial report for the SEPS


Bob Schwartz runs the Give-Away: Super Physics Prizes


Bill Berner's Demo Show