Spring 2026 Meeting of the Chicago and Illinois Sections of the AAPT
"Physics Collaborations"
March 27-28, 2026
Harper College
Palatine, IL
We invite you to attend the Spring 2026 meeting of the ISAAPT. Come to learn more about physics, discover new tools and techniques for teaching physics, share your experiences via contributed presentations and Take Fives, and meet old and new friends.
Dr. Lauren Niu from the University of Pennsylvania (image credit: Johanna Austin)
Dr. Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb from the University of Chicago
Matt Lowry from Lake Forest High School and College of Lake County
Submit a 15-minute Contributed Presentation
Register to attend! - Prepay your meeting fees!
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Registration will be outside Z102 starting at 9:30 am on Friday and 8am on Saturday.
Invited Speakers
Friday, March 27th at 7:00pm
Dr. Lauren Niu - University of Pennsylvania
Plenary/Banquet speaker (Public Talk): "Geometry of Knitting"
Friday, March 27th at 4:00pm
Dr. Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb - University of Chicago
"The Exoplanet Zoo: from cotton candy planets to water worlds and the search for life"
Saturday, March 28th at 10:00am
Matt Lowry - Lake Forest High School and College of Lake County
"Physics Northwest: 40 Years of Collaboration, Community, and Connections Among High School Physics Teachers in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago (plus advice on how you can do it, too!)"
Workshops
"Accessibility Brunch (eat brunch, make documents accessible, share ideas, casual space, bring your laptop)"
Friday, March 27 at 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
NGSS aligned labs with the IOLab – a multi-sensor device for K1-College
Morten Lundsgaard, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, March 27 at 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Description:
The IOLab is a wireless data acquisition system of comparable size and weight to that of a graphing calculator, and thus highly portable. With more than twenty sensors, students at all levels of high school physics can conduct experiments in mechanics, electricity & magnetism, waves, and thermodynamics. Setting up the real-time data collection with the iOLab is quick which makes it easy for students to collect a rich set of data to identify patterns, one of the Crosscutting Concepts in NGSS, and to test different lab designs when. completing a lab task.
In the workshop, participants will work through labs on force & motion, energy, and sound that align with the HS-PS2, HS-PS3, and HS-PS4 Performance Standards of NGSS.
To make the IOLab experience more authentic, participants should bring their own computer or Chromebook to the workshop.
For more information on the iOLab, see Application - iOLab Wireless Lab System and http://www.iolab.science
No lunch on Friday. Also, CSAAPT is buying the food for the Accessibility Brunch workshop so no need to register or pay for that, just come on in whenever!
Hosts: Raeghan Graessle rgraessl@harpercollege.edu
