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The 2021 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (British Columbia and Yukon)

is awarded to

Kelvin Dueck

"Receiving this award allows me to give credit to all the outstanding teachers who have mentored me over the years and to thank all my phenomenal students who have inspired me and brought me joy every day in my classroom." winner citation

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the 2021 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (British Columbia and Yukon) is awarded to Kelvin Dueck, Pitt Meadows Secondary School, in recognition of to recognize his passion and dedication to teaching physics and making physics accessible to all through his physics YouTube videos. announcement

Mr. Kelvin Dueck is a science and mathematics teacher who has taught at Pitt Meadows Secondary School for the past 24 years. He is passionate about empowering his students to learn on their own time and has been uploading his materials online (at www.pittmath.com) and his lessons online (on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/pmssmathteacher) for the past decade. His YouTube channel has nearly 3000 subscribers and over 680,000 views. He strives to create a classroom where students feel comfortable taking risks, making spectacular mistakes, and learning from those mistakes. Kelvin has also shared his resources electronically with other teachers in BC and around the world. His innovative and enthusiastic teaching style, his ability to inspire students about physics, and his creative use of technology in the classroom resulted in being recognized with a Prime Minister’s Teaching Excellence in STEM Award in 2019. 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