Are you wondering what it's like to attend an AAPT meeting? Listen to the testimonial of former meeting attendee Marla Glover, who shares her experience attending #AAPTWM25.
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Are you thinking about attending an AAPT Meeting? Listen to what excited Samuel Teye, Undergrad Lab Director at Indiana University, about attending #AAPTWM25!
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Another PTRA fun make-and-take at #AAPTWM25 was this little top out of a marble, dowel and wooden wheel, all hot glued together. It actually spins for quite a while!
Purple 3D printed pieces on top of a Vernier dual range force sensor and one underneath to stabilize it turns the sensor into a table top scale. Note next to it says "Download from Printables.com" and it's titled "Vernier force probe scale conversion."
Inspired by this 3D print that was in the PTRA workshop at #AAPTWM25. 3D printed pieces on top and underneath to stabilize it turns the sensor into a table top scale. Note next to it says "Download from Printables.com" and it's titled "Vernier force probe scale conversion." #ITeachPhysics 🧪🎢
"Whirligig" made of a craft stick and a bamboo skewer
Craft stick with a hole drilled into the center about the width of a bamboo skewer that has had the point removed.
PTRA had a make-and-take session at #AAPTWM25 and one of the stations was a homemade whirligig using a bamboo skewer (with the point removed) and a craft stick (aka tongue depressor) with a hole drilled into it. Mine wasn't assembled for ease of travel. #ITeachPhysics 🧪🎢
At #AAPTWM25, it was a joy to meet with one of my first students, Jed Brody, who is a novelist and, in Physics, Advanced Lab instructor at Emory. Via our ALPhA Immersions, he has been a popular mentor to instructors from other institutions, on the topic of his forthcoming book #ITeachPhysics
David looking at the data collected on two phones
Bree and Elissa smiling in front of the center marker at 630 feet up at the top of the Arch
@thephysicsshow.bsky.social, Elissa and I returned to the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to take some data just before going to the airport to leave #AAPTWM25. Yes, we are that big of Physics nerds. #ITeachPhysics 🎢🧪
Dan gesturing while presenting
Two participants hanging their phones from springs to find the oscillation period
A participant blows into a straw and records the sound wave amplitude using his phone
One participant blows into the top of a straw while another holds their phone near her mouth. The phone shows a graph of amplitude and frequency.
Dan Burns @kilroi22.bsky.social presenting about Physics With Phones at #AAPTWM25 using spings (finding the period of oscillation) and straws (resonance frequency). Dan used adjustable springs from Arbor Scientific so each group had different spring constants. #ITeachPhysics 🧪🎢
AAPTWM25: Plenary speaker and Doc Brown Futures Awardee, Johnathan Perry. #AAPTWM25 #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting
Exhibit Hall Raffles: The Exhibitor Passport winner is Roberto Ramos, the AAPT Laptop Bag winner is Janet Kahn, and the Quantum Kaleidoscope winner is Margaret Hill. #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #AAPTWM25
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My Physics with Phones Waves and Sound workshop is at 3:30 in Regency Ballroom C today at 3:30 #aaptwm25 . I have goodies and raffle prizes. #ITeachPhysics Slides posted here:
#AAPTWM25: PASCO scientific Workshop; Teaching Rotation with the Meter Stick Torque. #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting @pascoscientific.bsky.social
Teachers at a Physics teacher workshop
PASCO sales rep and former physics teacher Eric Gardner conducts a workshop with the Meter Stick Torque Set. Stop by the booth at #aaptwm25 for info on that and much, much more! #ITeachPhysics
My chilly walk yesterday was rewarded with this view of the sunlight glinting off the Gateway Arch. #aaptwm25 #ITeachPhysics
Day 3 of #AAPTWM25: Plenary speaker and awardee of the John David Jackson for Excellence in Graduate Physics Education, Laurie McNeil. #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting
What is the goal of a graduate program in physics? According to the Director of Graduate Studies in my department: to train independent researchers at the cutting edge of a specific area of Physics & Astronomy According to me: to help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to prepare them for the careers they choose to pursue
“The goal of graduate education should not be to clone ourselves.” - Laurie McNeil #aaptwm25
Jason Sterlace whispering under an archway at the entrance to the station
Plague declaring "The Whispering Arch, an architectural accident or the sharer of secrets? The Whispering Arch was discovered when the station was built in the 1800s. A workman dropped a hammer on one side and a painter on the other side, nearly 40 feet away, heard him. Since the discovery, the architect has been witness to marriage proposals and countless other secretive declarations. To experience the phenomenon yourself, simply face the wall and speak into the arch and your "Whispering voice" will be heard on the other side."
@sterlace.bsky.social and I playing with the Whisper Arch in the St. Louis Union Station at #AAPTWM25, it works like the Whisper spot of Capitol dome and the sound domes at the Exploratorium. 🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics
Not sure the extent to which #aaptwm25 is tackling AI for #ITeachPhysics folks. But this article provides a sober analysis of the state of play.
TL;DR: Visionaries have a vision, so now teachers: please do the work to implement our vision. Thx!
A story old as teaching.
