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Summer Visit - 2018 - Cosmic DIRt

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 Cosmic dIRt team came to visit in June 2018. The core team educators attended, plus 10 students.

Quotes

  • Getting to work with people who are genuinely interested in science research and want to talk about it as much as I do was fantastic.
  • I think just watching the kids interact surprised me -- they had a lot in common but were also really different. I was surprised at how much they learned from each other.
  • [Doing science is] both easier and harder than I expected. It’s easier in that, we used the same skills I teach my students around work hard, think carefully, document your work
  • It would have been really difficult to do this online. The group was able to get through a lot of material and get our workflow procedure worked out in only a week—it would have taken many weeks to have done this using some sort of online method.
  • [...] it was so much fun talking about science incessantly in a world where that isn't always socially appropriate.

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Summer Visit - 2018 - Cosmic DIRt