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Summer Visit - 2017 - SIRXS-DEEP

The summer visit to Caltech is 4 days long and is the only time during the year of work when all the participants on the team come together in person to work intensively on the data. Generally, each educator may bring up to two students to the summer visit that are paid for by NITARP, and they may raise funds to bring two more. The teams work at Caltech; the summer visit typically includes a half-day tour of JPL, which is a favorite site for group photos. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

The SIRXS-DEEP team came to visit in June 2017. The core team educators attended, plus 8 students.

Quotes

  • [student:] The work we carried out at Caltech would be plain confusing to do on the internet, especially learning NASA terms and getting to understand our assignment. [...] Overall, I think meeting together in LA was worthwhile by a mile. We would not have been as engaged in our work without the LA trip.
  • I know that I learned a great deal more by being together with the team at Caltech than I could have remotely. The bonding that took place among our team could only have happened by being together.
  • This experience has changed the way I think about astronomers and astronomy. I know I had an idea of the fact that astronomers used light of various wavelengths and didn't really use as much visible light. This has really brought that home to me and has opened my eyes to just how much data is out there yet to be examined.
  • [student: Qualities for an astronomer are] Curiosity and persistence- curiosity is important because it drives research and learning and persistence is important because doing research may not initially yield what you are looking for, but it's important to persist.
  • The face to face interaction and real time collaboration is important for the teachers and students as we are learning new information and techniques.

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Summer Visit - 2017 - SIRXS-DEEP