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Back in my day, you took physics senior year of high school. Its just what you did. And if  you were lucky enough, you had an awesome teacher who inspired you to go into the sciences post high [...]

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NSTA Columbus Modeling Mixer The AMTA will be hosting a Modeling Mixer at the NSTA convention in Columbus, OH on Thursday, December 1st starting at 6:15 pm.  There will be a variety of appetizers [...]

Zachary “Zak” Kovach accepted the “Arizona Novice Science Teacher of the Year” award from the Arizona Science Teachers Association. [Note: featured photo shows Zak with [...]

The Arizona Science Teachers Association (ASTA) honors four teachers each year at their fall convention.  Two honorees in 2014 are modelers. One is Michael Vargas, High School Science Teacher of [...]

David Weaver, AMTA Board Member at Large, received the Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to the American Association of Physics Teachers. David’s term as Member at Large on the [...]

Concerned about the end of NSF funding for Modeling Instruction, a core group of STEM teachers formed the American Modeling Teachers Association in 2005.  AMTA was created to support teachers [...]

With NSF funding the Arizona State University MNS program originally designed for physics teachers expanded to include in-service teachers of chemistry and physical science. This stimulated the [...]

Teacher demand for high-quality professional development stimulated expansion of the Modeling Program into a full-blown graduate program at Arizona State University expressly designed to meet the [...]

NSF funding enabled extension of the Modeling Workshops nationwide. More than 200 teachers from almost every state in the nation attended intensive four-week Workshops on two successive summers [...]