Regional Counselors build physics at the grass‐roots level
DOI: 10.1063/1.3048210
A regional counselor in Alaska flies 400 miles in an afternoon to discuss atomic and molecular structure with ninth graders; a counselor in South Carolina sends out a newsletter to high‐school physics teachers; another in Missouri helps set up a coöperative college‐school program. In every state of the union, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, AAPT‐AIP regional counselors are busy laying the groundwork for a stronger physics community. Serving without pay, these 52 counselors work at the local level to improve physics teaching and encourage greater physics enrollments in the high schools and junior colleges. The program is jointly administered by the American Institute of Physics and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
