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The 2018 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Prairies and Northwest Territories)

is awarded to

Thana Rahim

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The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the 2018 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Prairies and Northwest Territories) is awarded to Thana Rahim, Ecole St. Patrick High School, in recognition of for her innovation in promoting physics in Canada's north, bringing physics into the Yellowknife community, and her ability to encourage so many students in pursuing careers in science and engineering. announcement

Thana Rahim started working at Ecole St.Patrick High School as a Physics teacher in August of 2006. Since that time, she has taught a variety of Science and Mathematics courses from grades 9-12. She is presently serving as Department Head for Science. Mrs. Rahim's Physics 30 classes have been successful in achieving the highest Physics diploma exam marks the the NWT for the last five years. She has been chosen to mark Physics diploma exams on three separate occasions and this year she was the NWT representative on the committee charged with creating Physics 30 Field testing material. Thana has been the recipient of the Science Teaching Award by the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists. She was nominated by students for the Thank You For Making A Difference contest. In 2012, she won the Strong Mind, Strong North, Inspired Teaching Changing Lives Award sponsored by the NWT Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Currently she is organizing the Innovation 150, Power of Ideas Tour presentation to be held at St. Pat's this coming March. nominator citation

ABOUT the Award
The CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics, which was introduced in 2010, is intended to recognize excellence in teaching physics in Canadian high schools or CEGEPs and to encourage and promote physics at the high school/CEGEP level in Canada. The award is sponsored by the CAP, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, TRIUMF, the Institute of Particle Physics, and Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia. medal description

ABOUT the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

The Canadian Association of Physicists, founded in 1945, is a professional association representing over 1600 individual physicists and physics students in Canada, the U.S. and overseas, as well as a number of Corporate, Institutional, and Departmental Members. In addition to its learned activities, the CAP, through its charitable arm - the CAP Foundation, also undertakes a number of activities intended to encourage students to pursue a career in physics. cap description

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For more information, please contact: Mrs. Francine Ford, Executive Director Canadian Association of Physicists Tel: 613-562-5614 E-mail: execdir@cap.ca www.cap.ca