Call for Participation

The PhET Interactive Simulations project (http://phet.colorado.edu) needs your help!

To help us secure future funding to advance our work and keep PhET free, and to make the site as useful as possible for YOU, we need to know more about how, where, and why you use PhET in your teaching, and how you see the simulations influencing your students’ learning. We also want your input on future directions for the PhET project.

Teaching Planner (www.teachingplanner.com) is a new site designed to help teachers both find high quality resources online, plan their lessons, and record grading. Teaching Planner is looking for feedback from math and science teachers on the site and its services:

How to help:

The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) is seeking applications from women in grades 9-12 for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing. Awardees are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and plans for post-secondary education. National award winners will receive cash and prizes. Many states have local affiliates that also offer awards and recognitions.

Applications will be accepted online through October 31, 2012. 

The 1st International Conference on Frontiers in Computational Physics: Modeling the Earth System, takes place December 16-20, 2012, in Boulder, Colorado.

" This inaugural four-day Conference on Frontiers in Computational Physics will provide a forum for exchanging and sharing experiences, knowledge and on advanced computational techniques, methods, and models for simulation of the Earth System.With computational aspects in focus, the physical emphasis is on natural problems that are complex, coupled and multiscale."