Featured Projects & Programs
Each year, AAPT and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) sponsor a competition for high school students to represent the United States at the International Physics Olympiad Competition. Also, find out how you can help support the team.
The latest: Five of the team members have been selected to represent the entire team at the IPhO in Mexico. See the traveling team members.
Intel ISEF is the world's largest international pre-college celebration of science. AAPT/APS winners from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair have been announced and awarded. View a list of the winners on our ISEF page.
AAPT is proud to be the sole Educational Partner for the 2009 Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). TARC is the world's largest rocket design launch contest. Approximately 7,000 students participate each year. Students must design, build, and fly a one-stage model rocket carrying one raw egg to an altitude of exactly 750 feet while staying airborne for exactly 45 seconds and returning the egg uncracked. The latest: The top 100 teams gathered for the final round May 16 at Great Meadow in The Plains, VA! A team from Madison, WI., took first place at the Seventh Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), taking on the title of national champion.
Congratulations to the 2009 TARC Lesson Plan Contest winners: First Place, Jonathan Everett (Milton Hershey School), Second Place, Harold Larson (Seabrook Middle School), and Third Place, Guy Guglielimi (Whitefish Bay High School).
AAPT is the world's leading organization for physics educators. With over 10,000 members worldwide, AAPT provides teachers with many opportunities for professional development, networking, and student enrichment.
Our endowment and annual funds help support physics educators and students, recognize excellence, expand outreach activities, and develop innovative professional development programs for school teachers, college faculty, teaching assistants, and others.
