The ecae sponsored West Metro Physics Team has been meeting weekly since September, to train under Andrzej Stankiewicz, Research Physicist, and former Physics Olympiad Champion in Poland.  They will enter stage one of the 2010 U.S. Physics Team selection process by taking the AAPT (American Association of Physics Teacher) “F=ma” exam on January 26th.

AAPT is responsible for recruiting, selecting and training teams each year to compete in the International Physics Olympiad Competition. This selection process begins in early Januarywhen high schools register their students to participate in the F=ma exam. Each year approximately 400 top scorers on this first test advance to the quarter-final round of competition.

The semi-final exam is used as the basis for selection of the 24 members of the U.S. Physics Team. These students, from schools all over the United States, travel to the University of Maryland-College Park at the end of May for the annual U.S. Physics Team Training Camp. There they engage in nine days of intense studying, testing and problem solving.

To fulfill its mission of providing competitive opportunitities to all students regardless of school affiliation, ecae is also making this available to other students who are not on the team.  Interested students in grades 9-12 may download a copy of the registration form here:  uspt10_reg_form, print off a copy and mail in with payment, if they would like to participate in the exam on January 26th.

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