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SPS hosts activities at Six Flags America
Ever had a 96-foot drop as a part of your demo show? On April 24th, 2009, thousands of high school physics students descended on Six Flags America, near Washington, DC, and its gut-wrenching, free-falling, thrilling rides—and SPS was there to welcome them! SPS volunteers from across the Mid-Atlantic region joined staff members from the SPS national office to take physics to the students.

Photo Gallery | Six Flags America Website | Amusement Park Physics

• 2009 SPS Leadership Scholarships
• 2009 Outstanding Student Awards for Undergraduate Research
• 2009 Fellowships in Physics & Society Awarded
• Science Day brings local children to Elon University
• Year of Science 2009 Explores Physics & Technology

Karen Williams receives Worth Seagondollar Award
Dr. Karen Williams, professor of physics at East Central University, has been awarded The Worth Seagondollar Service Award in recognition of her extraordinary level of service and commitment to Sigma Pi Sigma and SPS. It recognizes her “service as a chapter adviser, zone councilor and president of the SPS, overseeing a great expansion of the role of president and the precedent-setting 2004 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress.”

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• Fun with physics: Union College students inspire local youngsters
• Dr. Samuel Lofland named 2008 Outstanding Chapter Advisor
• 2008 Outstanding Chapters
• SPS Reporters cover all angles of Sigma Pi Sigma Congress
• 2009 Marsh White Outreach Awards Announced
• 2009 Undergraduate Research Awards Announced
• Chapter Project Reports from 2008 Undergraduate Research Award Recipients

Your dreams, their experience: MentorNet
Want to talk to a science professional about career options? Need support from someone that has overcome similar challenges? Looking for a foot in the door to your first job? Find a mentor! SPS partners with MentorNet, an award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network, to offer free mentoring services to ALL SPS members!

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• 2008 Fellowship in Physics & Society
• USU's Willard L. Eccles Research Fellow: Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
• SPS 'Outstanding Students' present research at ICPS in Cracow, Poland
• Thomas Olsen Takes on New Role as Assistant Director of SPS
• 2008 Blake Lilly Prize Recipients
• SPS launches COPUS Student Hub
• CERN science writer Katie McAlpine has a hit on her hands with Large Hadron Rap

SPS and NSHP offer joint membership
SPS and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP) are now offering joint student memberships at a discounted price. NSHP seeks to increase opportunities for Hispanics in physics and to increase the number of practicing Hispanic physicists, particularly by encouraging Hispanic students to enter a career in physics.

More information | Joint Membership Application | NSHP Website

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ISU SPS Celebrates Pi Day and Einstein's Birthday with Outreach Events

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MARCH 14-The Idaho State University Department of Physics and the I.S.U. Society of Physics Students invited everyone Saturday afternoon to celebrate Pi Day at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, ID.

Saturday March 14th was "Pi Day," (Pi is 3.14) and it's also Einstein's birthday.

The event had physics demonstrations, hands-on science exhibits and much more. There was free pie for the kids and real ice cream made in minutes with the help of liquid nitrogen.

Students say it's a great way to show kids that science is not boring. "We're just trying to show them that science is a lot of fun. It's not boring. It is just something that is really cool and it would be great to know about," said Dayton Smye, a sophomore at I.S.U.

"We're really excited to give them an opportunity to see science in action and to do some fun stuff that they might not normally be able to do and hopefully inspire them to study science more for themselves," says president of the Society of Physics Students Andrew Harmon.

Einstein would have turned 130 years old today.

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