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• Membership Shirt Orders

  • When
    08 Dec 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:59 PM
  • Location
    ONLINE ORDER

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  We are excited to announce a limited-time sale of our NJAAPT membership shirts being available to our valued members! These shirts symbolize our shared mission of supporting quality physics education.

  All shirts are blue, Polo shirts with front buttons and a collar. The NJAAPT logo will be embroidered in yellow and white on the front, top, and right side of the shirt. Please ignore the square white background in the logo in the pictures below. The white background was just part of the logo's image inserted in the pictures here. There is no other writing or print on the shirt.

  To purchase shirt/s, click on "Register", then select a "ticket" for the shirt you wish to purchase. Then make the payment to complete "registration" for this "event". There is a mandatory field for shirt size when filling out your contact information.

  Payment should be made within 15 minutes of event registration. You may choose to pay via PayPal or your credit card (without making a PayPal account).

  Orders can be placed till Sunday, December 8th.

  The shirts will be shipped in early January.

  Wear them to your next physics event and watch the compliments come!

  Below are the shirt options to choose from:

  Men's long sleeve EZ Cotton polo (100% cotton; $41)

  Women's long sleeve silk touch polo (65 poly/35 cotton; $39)

  
  

     

  Men's short sleeve combed ring spun polo (100% cotton; $31)

  Women's short sleeve combed ring spun polo (100% cotton; $31)

   

  Please use the measurement charts below to choose the correct size for you.

  Women's long sleeve shirt measurements:

  
  

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  Women's short sleeve shirt measurements:

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  Feel free to contact us with any questions.

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• 2025 NJ Physics Olympics --- North/Central Jersey

  • When
    25 Jan 2025
  •  
    8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Wayne Hills High School, 272 Berdan Ave, Wayne NJ 07470

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  We look forward to your school's participation at this event.  The competition is a lot of fun and your students will meet, share experiences, and compete with other students from other high schools in New Jersey.

  
  This is for the NJ Olympics North/Central Jersey at Wayne Hills High School (Passaic County)

  Light morning refreshments will be provided.

  This year's events are: 

  1. FERMI QUESTIONS: To estimate the order of magnitude of a quantity that is difficult or impossible to measure.
  2. PAPER TOWER: Build a freestanding tower as tall as possible.
  3. TARGET DROP: To hit a target with a horizontally launched steel marble.
  4. GYRO BALANCE: To balance a spinning gyroscope on a string for the longest amount of time.
  5. GRAVITY VEHICLE: To design and build a vehicle that uses only the energy from a falling mass to move itself along a track stopping as close as possible to the wall.
  6. HOOKED CARTESIAN DIVER: Design and build hooked Cartesian divers to retrieve different types of hooked sinkers in the least amount of time.

  Detailed rules can be found on the website under the "Events / Physics Olympics 2025" section.   Link here.

  To ask questions about the rules, go to the "Forum" section of the website (Top menu/Forum).  Link here.

  • To receive replies via email from the forum, you must “subscribe” to the forum.  
  • It is the team’s responsibility to periodically check in or inquire about changes and clarifications to the rules.
  • Note – the deadline for submitting questions about individual events is mid-November (11/ 18).  After that date, questions cannot be addressed due to committee meeting dates/holidays.

  
  

  Please print Media Release forms for students/parents to sign and bring signed forms to the competition.  Winning teams are photographed.  Students with release forms will be included in the photographs of winning teams.  Forms can be printed out from rules page.
  

  
  

  Registration info:
  

  Signing up is free for NJAAPT members.   (Go to njaapt.org to join or renew membership)

  Each team that you bring must be registered as a Guest--do not forget to register your teams !!     (2 teams = 2 guests;  a team = 1-6 students).   
  

  Early Registration:   $30 per team  (on or before November 30). 

  Regular Registration:  $40 per team  (after November 30) 

  Final registration deadline:   Jan 8

  All teams must be registered and paid in advance.  

  There will be no on-site registration.

  
  

  
  

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• 2025 NJ Physics Olympics --- South Jersey

  • When
    25 Jan 2025
  •  
    8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Timber Creek High School, 501 Jarvis Rd, Sicklerville, NJ 08081; Park/Enter on Right side of Bldg

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  We look forward to your school's participation at this event.  The competition is a lot of fun and your students will meet, share experiences, and compete with other students from other high schools in New Jersey.

  
  This is for the NJ Olympics South Jersey at Timber Creek High School (Camden County)

  Light morning refreshments will be provided.

  This year's events are: 

  1. FERMI QUESTIONS: To estimate the order of magnitude of a quantity that is difficult or impossible to measure.
  2. PAPER TOWER: Build a freestanding tower as tall as possible.
  3. TARGET DROP: To hit a target with a horizontally launched steel marble.
  4. GYRO BALANCE: To balance a spinning gyroscope on a string for the longest amount of time.
  5. GRAVITY VEHICLE: To design and build a vehicle that uses only the energy from a falling mass to move itself along a track stopping as close as possible to the wall.
  6. HOOKED CARTESIAN DIVER: Design and build HOOKED Cartesian divers to retrieve different types of hooked sinkers in the least amount of time.

  Detailed rules for all events and the media release forms can be found on the website under the "Events / Physics Olympics 2025" section.   Link here.

  To ask questions about the rules, go to the "Forum" section of the website (Top menu/Forum).  Link here.

  • To receive replies via email from the forum, you must “subscribe” to the forum.  
  • It is the team’s responsibility to periodically check in or inquire about changes and clarifications to the rules.
  • Note – the deadline for submitting questions about individual events is mid-November (11/19).  After that date, questions cannot be addressed due to committee meeting dates/holidays.

  
  

  Please print Media Release forms for students/parents to sign and bring signed forms to the competition.  Winning teams are photographed.  Students with release forms will be included in the photographs of winning teams.  Forms can be printed out from rules page.
  

  
  

  Registration info:
  

  Signing up is free for NJAAPT members.   (Go to njaapt.org to join or renew membership)

  Each school can bring up to 4 teams. A team can consist of up to 6 students. Students will not be permitted to switch teams. Teachers will be required to submit a list of student names for each team they are bringing during registration. 

  Each team that you bring must be registered as a Guest--do not forget to register your teams !!     (2 teams = 2 guests;  a team = 1-6 students).   
  

  Early Registration:   $30 per team  (on or before Nov. 30). 

  Regular Registration:  $40 per team  (Nov. 30 - Jan 5) 

  Final registration deadline:   Jan 5

  All teams must be registered and paid in advance.  

  There will be no on-site registration.

  
  

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