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Michael Stephen Lampert was an American
high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...
science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
teacher at West Salem High School in
Salem, Oregon Salem ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city 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, w ...
... 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 a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...
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