2013 Section Meeting Report

AAPT Idaho-Utah Section Meeting Report March 2013
Section Representative: Brian A Pyper – Brigham Young University-Idaho Department of Physics
The Section Meeting for the Idaho-Utah Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers was held at Utah Valley University March 15-16 2013. The meeting was excellently organized by Phil Matheson, the section President-Elect, and was attended by 64 people, 4 HS Faculty, 26 College/University Faculty/Staff, and 34 students some of whom were jointly attending the combined SPS Zone 15 meeting.
The program included the ever-popular Demonstration Show, and a collection of contributed talks, a make-and-take ferro-fluids activity, and the section business meeting and annual section officer election.
The results of the election were as follows, with terms from 3-17-13 to 5/31/14:
Farhang Amiri from Weber State rotated off the presidential chain.
Brian Pyper, also the section representative, rotates from President to Past President.
Phil Matheson, of Utah Valley University rotates from President-Elect to President.
Kathryn Devine, of College of Idaho, rotates from Vice President to President-Elect.
Larry Smith, of Snow College was elected Vice President.
This means that the section meeting next year (2014) will be held at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, with Kathryn Devine as the local organizer, and the following year (2015) the section meeting will be held at Snow College in Ephraim, UT, hosted by local organizer Larry Smith.