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Letter
September 27, 2019
Loo Kang Lawrence Wee
Ministry of Education
Educational Technology Division
1 North Buona Vista Drive
Singapore 138675
Dear Dr. Wee,
On behalf of the American Physical Society, it is my pleasure to inform you, and the Open Source Physics Team have been awarded the 2020 Excellence in Physics Education Award. The award recognizes a team or group of individuals (such as a collaboration) or, exceptionally, a single individual, who have exhibited a sustained commitment to excellence in physics education. The citation that will appear on your award certificate is: "For sustained commitment to computational physics education through creating and disseminating programming environments, books, software, simulations, and other tools to support computational thinking, and for research establishing the value of these tools and best practices for their use."
You will receive more information from Cortney Bougher, Director of Membership, about the award and recognition ceremony at an upcoming APS meeting. Congratulations on this well-deserved award.
Sincerely,
David Gross, APS President
Cc: Andrew Gavrin, Nominator
Paula Heron, Chair, Excellence in Physics Education Award Selection Committee
Laurie McNeil, Chair, Forum on Education
Charles Henderson, Secretary/Treasurer, Forum on Education
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Great news! I have been awarded this prestigious #award in USA as one of the 18 members team of #opensourcephysics for our contribution to #physics #education.Wow! What a way to start the weekend.
Thanks to professor Francisco Esquembre and Félix J. García Clemente for creating the Easy JavaScript simulation tool and Doug Brown for Tracker video modeling that I use.
I also thank all the other professors in tag for I have remix their source codes for the Singapore curriculum.
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