"Help Make 2005 Another Miraculous Year"
In this issue:
1. Reduced Gravity Competition
2. Physics on the Road grants available
3. PhysicsQuest sign-up
4. Rocket Contest
5. Join the Physics Talent Search
6. Recreate a Momentous Experiment
7. 2005 Event Finder now online!
8. AAPT offers WYP grants
Welcome to the World Year of Physics 2005 newsletter. You're receiving this message because you signed up to be on the list at our website or at an APS, AAPT or other scientific meeting. This newsletter, containing information about the upcoming World Year of Physics 2005, is distributed approximately every six weeks.
1. Reduced Gravity Competition
High School Teachers! Now's your chance to fly aboard NASA's reduced gravity aircraft to conduct your class's project. Your class will be required to create an experiment to run on the reduced gravity aircraft. Teams of teachers will then conduct the experiment in free-fall. The deadline for applications is December 3, 2004.
2. Physics on the Road grants available
The World Year of Physics 2005 team is happy to announce that it will award sixteen $10,000 grants to existing or start-up Physics on the Road programs in the United States. Both existing programs and start-up programs are encouraged to apply. Proposals are due by December 3, 2004.
3. PhysicsQuest sign-up
Middle school classes from around the country will soon join the search for Einstein's Missing Treasure. Register your middle school class to participate in this free project. Remember, only the first 10,000 classrooms to sign up will be able to participate. The project is limited to U.S. classrooms and home schoolers.
4. Rocket Contest
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR), in partnership with NASA and the American Association of Physics Teachers, are proudly sponsoring the Team America Rocketry Challenge, a national model rocket competition for U.S. high school and middle school students. A grand prize pool of over $60,000 in cash and savings bonds will be shared by the top ten teams.
5. Join the Physics Talent Search
Are you the next Einstein? You never know without trying! To start, why not participate in the WYP 2005 Physics Talent Search? You can earn Talent Search points by visiting a physics lab, making a poster, writing a play, or doing a physics experiment in your school's science fair. If you earn 10 points, you earn the right to be called a "United States Physics Talent." For more points, who knows? You might become one of the United States "Physics Young Ambassadors."
6. Recreate a Momentous Experiment
More than 2000 years ago, the Greek scientist Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the Earth with an ingenious technique requiring only sticks, shadows and a little mathematics. In Spring 2005 students at separate high schools can collaborate with each other to recreate this experiment on the largest scale ever attempted.
7. 2005 Event Finder now online!
The WYP2005 Online Event Finder is now available. We want to hear about YOUR World Year of Physics event in the United States. Add your open house, public lecture, lab tour, or physics demonstrations to our online event finder so others in your area (and around the country) can find out about your events.
8. AAPT offers WYP grants
Do you want to celebrate WYP? Do you need financial support to make it happen? The American Association of Physics Teachers has two funding opportunities available.
The AAPT's Bauder Fund will offer a minimum of 20 grants of up to $1,000 each for WYP outreach activities. Deadline is December 31, 2004.
The AAPT's Innovative High School Physics Teacher Grant Program offers grants of $100-$500 to high school teachers with innovative ways of sharing information about physics and WYP with the school, the community and the surrounding areas. Total funding for the program is $1,000. The number of grants awarded will be determined by the dollar amount of each grant.
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