Fall 2014 Meeting Schedule

Please see the link below for the most recent meeting schedule: Fall 2014 Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the AAPT

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Fall 2014 Meeting – Thiel College

The Fall 2014 meeting is just around the corner!  If you haven’t submitted your abstract yet, please do so (see the post below for information.)  This post is meant to provide you with some additional information.  As soon as the schedule is developed, it will be posted here.   Invited Speaker:  Megan Nagel, Assistant Professor of […]

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Call for Abstracts – Fall Meeting

Please consider presenting at the Fall Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers:   October 18th, 2014 at Thiel College in Greenville PA. To present, e-mail ( bal23@psu.edu ) and include: Name, e-mail, and affiliation of presenter Names, e-mails, and affiliations of any associated non-presenting authors A title A short abstract (up to […]

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Fall 2014 Meeting – Thiel College

The Fall meeting for this year will be held at Theil College in Greenville, PA with local host Patrick Hecking.  The meeting will be on Saturday, October 18th and tentatively from 8:30-4pm.  The call for abstract will be sent out soon, so keep checking back for more information!

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Spring Meeting at Monessen – Agenda

Spring 2014 Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the AAPT Monessen High School Monessen, PA 05.April.2014 Agenda (may be modified at the discretion of the Executive Committee)  8:00-9:00         Registration. Continental breakfast provided.  9:00-9:15         Opening and Welcome Remarks  9:15-9:30         Tucek, Ryan (Penn Trafford High School): Teaching Physics with Modeling Instruction June 16 – July 3, […]

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The Fall Meeting at Gannon

Thank you very much to those of you who came out to Gannon for our Fall Meeting.   The rain didn’t dampen the spirit any – we had great talks and great conversation as always.  Special recognition is owed to Nick Conklin and the Gannon faculty who put together a great meeting for us.   […]

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Fall 2013 meeting at Gannon

Fall 2013 Meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of the AAPT Palumbo Building, Room 1200 Gannon University, Erie, PA 19.October.2013 Agenda (may be modified at the discretion of the Executive Committee)   8:30-9:30         Registration. Continental breakfast provided. 9:30-9:45         Opening and Welcome, Remarks by the Dean.  9:45-10:00       Conklin, N. and Lee, W. (Gannon University):   Gannon University’s Cosmic-Ray Calorimeter […]

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AAPT Summer Meeting

The 2013 Summer meeting just kicked off in Portland, Oregon.  The sun is shining and all of the Section Representatives are gathered to plan and work on professional development – including working on these websites!   Check back soon for info about our section and the coming Fall meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Section of […]

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Welcome to our Website!

Thanks for visiting our new Western Pennsylvania Section Website.  Thanks to Lee’s efforts, we have a new page up and running and we couldn’t be more excited about having a single place to house our archives and share information about upcoming meetings.  Stop back often – we’ll keep the page up-to-date as new information comes […]

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Fall 2011 Meeting at University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown

134 Blackington – University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown – October 22, 2011

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