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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

  • You really do become co-learners with the students.
  • The students there did a great job of explaining to me what it was like to really collaborate as scientists and how helpful it was to work as a team to learn new things.
  • Of all the professional development programs in which I have been involved, NITARP continues to rank among the top few. Working with teachers across the country in search of previously unclassified objects was thrilling.
  • I definitely didn't anticipate that I would be this overwhelmed, though it's not in a negative way; I guess I didn't expect the depth that people had explored within specific subfields.
  • I loved getting to work with other students in our NITARP group to collaborate on a project.

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AAS - 2013