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Year: 1995 – Province: British Columbia

National Recipient

David Gabe

In addition to a solid science education, David Gabel offers three basic things to the students he teaches at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia: encouragement, challenge and praise. Mr. Gabel has been working to provide more opportunities for physics students throughout his entire career. He began with curriculum reform in 1973 and today continues to work on such projects as new textbooks, seminars and resource reviews and his active and successful Science Olympics program.