The SPS reporter award is a super useful tool for getting undergraduate students to conferences. I’d like to take a moment and thank SPS for providing these wonderful opportunities to our students. Learn more about it here: https://www.spsnational.org/awards/reporter

Basically SPS hires a student to go to a conference and write an article (POV piece) about the conference. SPS can use these for their various publications.

As a PUI physics professor I love them, because they often get just the right amount of money to help a student attend a meeting, get the students a task so they are taking the conference seriously, give them a line they could put on a resume, and offer the possibility that their story could get carried by a publication. All great things for the resume! At the SPS conferences it’s even better as they setup interviews with the VIPs.