Michael Stephen Lampert
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Michael Stephen Lampert was an American
high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
teacher at West Salem High School in
Salem, Oregon Salem ( ) is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County, Oregon, Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river ...
... Lampert graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Physics and pursued a PhD in Atomic Physics at Oregon State University before becoming a high school teacher. He has written numerous grants to fund innovative projects such as Airbag Physics, Sports Physics, and elementary school outreaches. Lampert was one of 45 winners of the 2005 Disney Teacher Award. He was Oregon Teacher of the Year for 2008–2009, and the winner of the 2009
American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...
Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers. In 2010, he was one of ten winners of the
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Teachers Innovation Awards, and the
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listed him as one of ten SSP Fellows..


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Lampert's web site
at West Salem High School

a blog written by Lampert for PBS Schoolteachers from Oregon Living people Oregon State University alumni People from Salem, Oregon University of California, Berkeley alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-edu-bio-stub