• NASA
  • IPAC

AAS - 2017

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.

The 2016 and 2017 NITARP teams attended the 2017 January AAS meeting in Dallas, TX. The 2016 class was presenting results and the 2017 class was starting up. We had many alumni raise money to come back as well. We sent about 50 people to the AAS and had a grand time. Please see the special article on NITARP at the AAS. All of the posters we presented are here:


Quotes

  • [student:] I didn't expect that we would grow so close after connecting during just 5 days.
  • [student:] I didn’t anticipate loving it all so much.
  • I think I'm talking about science a little differently, with more focus on the scientific process than just the topics.
  • [student:] I have sparked more scientific conversations with people in classes. I speak differently in these conversations because now I am more confident with what I talk about.
  • I was not aware of just how much archived data is available. That was stunning to me.

AAS - 2017