MIT TOPS: Teaching Opportunities in Physical Science

08/01/2016

07/15/2016

Thank you to Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle for a fascinating talk about BEC's!

07/07/2016

Dan, Ted and Don discuss how sound travels through the human body as Joe thinks about his lesson plans!

07/01/2016

Great first week for TOPS 2016 with five minute lessons, demos, lesson prep, and more!

06/30/2016

TOPS 2016 getting underway and preparing for a phase change lesson!

01/21/2016

Physics majors interested in teaching: a reminder that TOPS applications for the summer of 2016 are due on 2/1. Spend your summer at MIT!
http://cuaweb.mit.edu/Pages/TopsSection/ActivitiesAndSchedule.aspx?TopsSectionId=8

01/13/2016

Applications are due soon! Please forward to any undergraduate physics majors!

11/19/2015

Physics undergrads: don't forget to apply for the Barbara Lotze Scholarship for Future Teachers. Several former TOPS participants have won this prestigious scholarship.

http://www.aapt.org/programs/grants/lotze.cfm

Barbara Lotze Scholarship for future physics teachers

10/01/2015

Former TOPS participants: we are (finally) rewriting our webpage and are looking for testimonials or comments from you - even a sentence or two is fine. If you don't feel comfortable writing here on the page, you can email me at physnicks -at- gmail.com. Any advice on the new webpage is also appreciated! Thank you everyone!

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08/04/2015

The TOPS '15 crew!

08/03/2015

MIT professor and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle speaks to TOPS undergraduates, high-schoolers, and middle-schoolers.