Posts related to HAPS governance, including the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee.
One of my jobs as HAPS President to plan the agenda for the HAPS Midyear meeting. This meeting is an opportunity for the Board of Directors (BOD)and the Steering Committee (SC) to meet face-to-face to discuss HAPS business. We typically…
Most of us in HAPS thrived in high school, college, and even graduate school classrooms that were driven by educators who lectured. At the start of class, the instructors would walk into the room and begin to talk .. draw…
These past two and a half months as HAPS president have been keeping me busy. I am in the midst of planning our mid-year meeting for the Board and Steering committee, assisting the Jacksonville committee for the HAPS 2014 planning,…
I spent the summer traveling and thinking about new ideas for my courses or updates or changes to current ideas for my courses. It was a time of great hope and great promise. The first week of classes was a…
It’s been a busy week. We are all so busy, I’ll keep this brief. But it is never too busy to learn anatomy. Some do so in interesting ways. Check this out Anatomy Model
I feel like I’m in one of those sports-car ads: Goes 0 to 60 in blah blah seconds. I did not teach this summer. For the past three years our district in San Diego has not offered summer science classes…
As a continuation of my blog from Aug. 7, below are some additional observations from my recent trip to France. The emphasis of the trip was on architecture and landscaping, but of course my mind wandered to A&P in a…
As of July 1, I began my term as the new HAPS secretary. However, summer is slow for board meetings, so I found alternate ways to practice my skills at observing and recording details. I just returned from a trip…
Here’s a fun scientific thought for you. A beer can (or soda can) one-third full of liquid will stand on its indented angle. The new fad in several microbreweries is to have glasses shaped like beer cans because it’s familiar…