The 26th annual Spring meeting of the North Carolina Section of the AAPT will be a joint meeting with the Tennessee Section of the AAPT.

The meeting will be hosted virtually by Wingate University and Davidson College on April 10, 2021.

Rules and Preparation Guidelines for Presentations

Who may submit an abstract — The privilege of contributing papers is restricted to:

> NCS-AAPT, TAAPT, and other AAPT members in good standing;
> Nonmembers whose completed membership applications and payments for the first year's dues are submitted before the appropriate deadline;
> Nonmembers whose abstracts are sponsored by members and students whose paper is supervised by a faculty person. Please indicate the sponsoring member's or advisor's name where asked below.

Contributed papers on all physics and astronomy teaching topics, physics outreach, and undergraduate and graduate research are encouraged. Talks will be limited to 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions. The exact schedule will be dependent on the number of talks submitted. These presentations will be scheduled and delivered live via Zoom.  

Contributed posters on all physics and astronomy teaching topics, outreach, and undergraduate research are welcome.  PDF versions of posters will be hosted on a web platform for viewing at any time during the meeting.  Poster sessions will be scheduled during the meeting to allow for conversation and questions.  Contributing authors are strongly encouraged to send a Zoom link with their poster PDF to allow attendees to discuss the presented work during the scheduled time.  The exact poster presentation schedule will be dependent on the number of posters submitted.  Posters must be submitted no later than Wednesday, April 7th.  More details will be sent to those who contribute posters following the abstract deadline and scheduling of the poster sessions.

Remote teaching share-a-thon – Have you tested a new teaching strategy during the pandemic?  Have you created new labs that can be done remotely?  Do you have other products from virtual/hybrid learning that you are excited to share?  Did you learn something from the remote teaching experience that you now use during in-person classes?  We invite attendees to share their experiences in our remote teaching share-a-thon.  These quick-paced teaching demos are limited to 5 minutes in length + 3 minutes for questions.  The share-a-thon will take place via Zoom.  We anticipate that these short presentations will be engaging, taking the form of a live demo of an activity, a quick tutorial of an online resource, or a shared screen of a written exercise.

Virtual Workshops - We are also accepting ideas for 30 minute – 1 hour long virtual workshops that are suitable for presentation via Zoom.  Please note that the number of accepted workshops will depend on the number of other abstracts submitted for all categories.

Policy — In accordance with the AAPT Constitution and policy, authors are requested to be sensitive to, and show respect for, ethnic, cultural, religious, and sexual diversity. For example, you should not use language that suggests that physicists are exclusively male. Additionally, AAPT's official measurement system is the International System of Units (SI). We recommend that our members and those writing for our publications make every effort to use the SI system exclusively.

The abstract submission deadline is April 2, 2021.