Saturday, October 4, 2025.  

Hosted by Florida International University as a hybrid event (face-to-face and Zoom options).

Link to the meeting agenda here.  Zoom link will be e-mailed separately to registered Zoom attendees.  Meeting activities to include:

• • Discussion groups to facilitate professional networking with South Florida high school physics teachers

  • Talks begin at 8:45 a.m. and include:

    • Geoff Potvin (FIU), on the STEM Transformation Institute at FIU

    • Ida Rodriguez (FIU), "Project Empower: Collaborating with students for research-based course design"

    • Pooneh Sabouri (FIU), on the STEP UP program

    • Stephen Peterson (John I. Leonard High School), on Students Choosing Physics: Recruitment Strategies and Administration Support

    • Karim Diff (SF College), "OPTYCs is still here: A progress report"

    • Jen Kile, "Thinking Like a Physicist, for Physics Students"

    • Miranda Gallagher, "PhysTEC: The APS-AAPT Physics Teacher Education Coalition"

Meeting Location and Campus Map

The meeting will be in Green Library, Room 132.  

Doors open for sign-in at 8:30 a.m.

Here is a campus map with the FL-AAPT location indicated:

Parking

FIU doesn’t use physical parking decals or permits. Parking permits are assigned electronically and linked to your license plate (park head-in so your plate can be read).

Given the meeting location, the best parking will be in parking garage PG6.  Failing that, PG4 or PG5 would be equally fine.  These are all on the north side of campus, nearest to the turnpike.

There is metered parking (for 25 cents per 15 minutes) on the ground floor of each of these parking garages but, if participants would like us to pay for their parking, we can arrange a pass that will be valid all day, for any spot labeled "Faculty/Staff".  To get a pass, visitors will need to send the following information to stemti@fiu.edu by Thursday, October 2 (to give time to process):

• Visitor's Full Name

• Make, model, and color of car

• License plate number and state

• Email address

Free lunch!

We plan to take our lunch break at the 8th Street Campus Kitchen, which is the FIU dining hall located in the Graham Center (building adjacent to the meeting location), featuring a buffet with a wide variety of dietary choices.  We will pay for the buffet for all who registered for in-person attendance, but the cashier will need to tally everybody in the group so the tab can be settled on a single bill.

Registration and Membership Dues

• Register at this link.  Meeting registration is free!

• Please support the work of FL-AAPT, as a new or returning member!  Annual membership dues for 2025-2026 are only $20, and help us support our web operations, meeting refreshments, and grant projects.  Plus, you'll receive electronic newsletters packed with useful links!

• Your conference materials will be sent to the e-mail address you specify in your registration form, including the Zoom meeting link.  The Zoom link will only be sent to registered attendees.

• We will e-mail a certificate of completion and agenda to K-12 teachers who require it in order to apply to their district for in-service certification points.

Be a Presenter

Lead a workshop, share a classroom strategy, or talk about your research – we are offering a variety of presentation formats. University students, researchers, and K-12 and higher ed faculty, and others are encouraged to submit. 

Submit your abstract at this link.

If you need to modify your abstract, please e-mail brian.lee@sfcollege.edu.

Questions or comments? Send us an email at AAPTFlorida@gmail.com.