Meggers Project Award

William F. MeggersThe William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award of the American Institute of Physics is a biennial award designed to fund projects for the improvement of high-school physics teaching in the United States. The Award was made possible by an endowment created by the gift of a stamp and coin collection from William F. and Edith R. Meggers to the American Institute of Physics.

Application submission deadline: May 20, 2013

Nature of the award

The Award consists in monetary support. A total of $20,000 is available to be awarded biennially for one or more outstanding projects in the competition.

Objective

The objective is to support projects at the high-school level designed to raise the level of interest in physics and boost the quality of physics education.

Guidelines

  • Preference will be given to the proposals that directly involve pre-college teachers and/or students.
  • Proposed projects must be clearly directed toward accomplishing the above-specified objective.
  • Proposals are invited from individuals as well as groups.
  • Projects that can serve as models for others are encouraged.
  • Projects that propose the use of the entire budget for the purchase or rental of equipment will be disallowed. Currently, indirect costs are not considered.
  • A completed proposal will consist of: Coversheet (download pdf template), Title, Abstract, List of Personnel, Vitae, Objectives, Description of Activities, Dissemination Plan (6 or fewer pages), and Budget.
  • Awarded projects deliver mandatory reports on the projects' activities.

Contact Information

Send proposals to:

Vice President, Physics Resources Center
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3843

Phone: 301-209-3127

Status of the award process

Application submission deadline: May 20, 2013

Past Honorees

Year Winner Final Project
2009 Hope College, Holland, MI Hope College Nuclear Forensics Workshops for High School Teachers
2009 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Suitcase Lab Library
2005 The School of Galactic Radio Astronomy – Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, Furman University, Rosman, NC High School Physics through Radio Astronomy
2005 High School Physics through Radio Astronomy Using Robots to Teach Beginning Physics
2005 AIMS Community College and Estes Park High School, Greeley, CO Technical Activity Module (TAM) Documentation & Dissemination
2003 Manhattan High School, Manhattan, KS The Thrill of Physics
2003 Colo-NESCO School District, Colo IA Physics and Math: Modeling the Ties that Bind
2002 Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA Meggers Website/SPS SOCK Internship
2000 Box Elder High School - Brigham City, UT ADDventures in Physics
2000 New Trier High School - Winnetka, IL The New Trier Connections Project
1998 SUNY - Buffalo, NY Inner City High School Physics Education
1998 Murray High School - Murray, UT Physics Camp for Young Women
1998 Muleshoe High School - Muleshoe, TX Triboluminescent Spectroscopy
1996 University City High School Project Pipeline
1996 Park Center High School - Brooklyn Park, MN Expanding Physics into the Hallway
1996 Berkeley National Laboratory - Berkeley, CA Developing a Cosmic Ray Detector
1994 Pittsburgh Area High Schools - Pittsburgh, PA MBL Interfacing is for Everybody
1994 Clark University - Worcester, MA Physics at Play in the Park
1994 Berkeley National Laboratory - Berkeley, CA The ABC's of Radioactivity