The Spanish and Mexican Physical Societies agreed to purchase some copies and this added resources. Franz and APS Director of Education and Outreach Fred Stein were able to obtain a grant of $25,500 from the National Science Foundation to offset the production costs and the project was underway. APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, who was part of this working group, agreed that APS would work with the Mexican Physical Society to try to produce useful materials in Spanish. This group gave very high priority to the production of new teaching materials that described simple experiments that teachers could do with their students.

The project was discussed by the working group on education at the Cuernavaca meeting. It is a translation of ' String and Sticky Tape Experiments', edited by Ron Edge and published by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). The new publication is called Experimentos con Hilos y Cinta Adhesiva (Experiments with String and Sticky Tape), and 2500 copies have been printed. This was first suggested at a meeting in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1998 of representatives of South, Central, and North American physical societies and of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics. now have an additional alternative to the standard English physics texts published in the U.S., thanks to a joint translation project of the APS and the Mexican Physical Society.

Science teachers in Latin America and Spanish-speaking educational districts in the U.S.

Physics in spanish