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AAS - 2013

The Winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting is the largest meeting of professional astronomers in the world. NITARP educators attend an AAS first to meet their team, then they go home and work remotely for much of the year, and then attend an AAS to present their results.  At any given AAS, then, we could have two NITARP classes attending - those finishing up, and those getting started. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

We were out in force at the AAS 2013 meeting in Long Beach, CA! A record number of NITARP-affiliated people attended, including the 2012 class finishing up and the 2013 class getting going. The 80 or so NITARP-affiliated folks made up about 3% of the AAS attendees.

Special article on AAS attendees!  And don't miss Danielle Miller's blog!

Quotes

  • There is much more to astronomical research than I anticipated. My view of astronomers hasn't changed, except I have gained MUCH more respect for them and the work that they do.
  • I gained much appreciation for the sheer volume of data processing that goes on in astronomy. I did not realize how quantitative astronomy is. In the classroom, I think that I will be more interested in finding out how the things that we are learning were first discovered.
  • This experience absolutely changed the way I look at the world of astronomy because pre-AAS, I never realized how many different fields of astronomy there actually are.
  • This program has made me more attentive to connections between the classroom and real astronomical research.
  • By far, the most interesting part of my entire NITARP experience is the scientific method applied to the discovery process.

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AAS - 2013