Teacher Information

Scotty Graham

I teach AP Physics B at Memorial.  This is my second year to do so.  I came from Dobie High School in 2007. 

I created the idea when I came up with the idea to build a functional pipe organ while I was in Anaheim California at the NSTA convention.  I was awarded the Toyota Tapestry grant for science teachers in 2006 while I was a physics teacher at Clear Creek High School. 

I conceived and wrote the Pasadena Biodiesel Project while I was at Dobie High School.  My proposal, which I donated to the entire Dobie Science Department, was awarded the Toyota Tapestry awarded in 2007, and this organ project, "Switched-On Physics," was awarded winning status in 2008, so I have won three project proposals in the past three years with Toyota's wonderful Tapestry grants for science teachers program. 

The "Switched-On Physics" Project has been awarded Hewlett Packard's technology for the classroom grant in 2008, and was awarded a Pasadena Education Foundation grant in 2008.  In 2007, BP's classroom grant program awarded the organ project while I was at Dobie High School to my partner teacher, Mary Obenauf and to me.  When I came to Pasadena Memorial high School, I met David White, who is our AP Physics C teacher with a background in process control engineering.  He became the third member of our special projects team.