Chapter and department information is now housed in a database and updated in real time using the SPS Information Handbook Update Form. Please verify and/or update your chapter information, then return to this page and complete Step II of the chapter report below.
 Step I: Verify Chapter Data in the SPS Information Handbook
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Step II: Describe Chapter Activity
Note: Bulleted items are preferred to prose. There may be some redundancy among the questions. That’s OK; these questions are not orthogonal basis vectors! Finding out what you did this academic year is what is important. |
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| FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR, DESCRIBE YOUR CHAPTER'S: |
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Participation in SPS Zone meetings.
Include titles and authors of papers presented
by your chapter members, attendance by your members, distances
traveled, tours, etc. Include meetings attended on any Zone.
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Participation in other professional meetings.
(e.g., SPS members who presented papers at
AIP Member Society meetings, etc.)
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Involvement in SPS programs (include applications made by
individuals in your chapter).
These include the Marsh White Award (proposal
submitted? Funded?), Blake Lilly Award, Undergraduate Research
Award, ICPS Award, nominations for Outstanding Chapter Advisor,
chapter members nominated for Associate Zone Councilor, members
who applied for scholarships, etc.
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Participation in local SPS chapter meetings.
List guest speakers, films, business meetings,
tours, student presentation rehearsals, etc.
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Participation in local SPS-sponsored social events.
(e.g., picnics, Sigma Pi Sigma banquets, floats
in parades, etc.)
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Involvement in outreach efforts to the grades K-12 or the
general public.
Please include projects such as “Physics
Circuses,” classroom demonstrations, tutoring services,
assistance with school science fairs, open houses, promoting
the US Physics Olympiad Team, etc.
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Participation in community service performed during the academic
year.
Include chapter-organized charitable service,
fundraising, etc.; performed for individuals, families, charities,
non-profit groups, etc.
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Contributions to student recruitment and retention in your
department.
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9. Interactions with your department’s alumni.
Include newsletters, invitations to speak,
arranging internships with local industries through alumni
contacts, etc.
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Did you host a Zone meeting this year? Have you committed
to host a Zone meeting any time soon?
If your chapter hosted a Zone meeting during 2002-03, describe
the program, institutions represented, number of papers presented,
guest speakers invited, tours conducted, etc. Please attach
a copy of the program and photographs, if not already submitted
for publication in the SPS Observer.
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Strategy for promoting SPS membership.
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12.
List publications authored or co-authored by SPS members this
year.
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Describe events that the SPS Chapter co-sponsored with other
campus groups or participated in with other campus organizations.
(e.g., Co-sponsoring a colloquium with the
mathematics club, organized participation in a campus blood
drive, etc.)
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Describe events that your chapter held jointly with
other SPS chapters.
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15.
Describe other projects and functions not already
covered in this report.
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Describe the over-all health of your chapter.
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17.
Describe chapter problems. What can the national office do
to better serve you?
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18.
Describe other suggestions for the SPS National Office.
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Websites
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Did your chapter host a Sigma Pi Sigma reception event or any other honor society events?
If your chapter hosted a Sigma Pi Sigma reception during the past year, describe the program, number of persons inducted, number of attendees, guest speakers invited, tours conducted, etc. Please submit a copy of the program and photographs, if not already submitted for publication in Radiations magazine.
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Attachments
Attachments such as photos, programs, news clippings, etc., are welcome. Please e-mail any such attachments to sps@aip.org, along with your name, chapter, and chapter number, if feasible. For larger files (images, movies, etc.) it is probably better to send us an appropriate URL in question #19 above, by email, or on a disc by snail mail.
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