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AAS - 2020

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 2019 and 2020 NITARP teams attended the 2020 January AAS meeting in Honolulu, HI. The 2019 class was presenting results and the 2020 class was starting up. We had 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:

2019 Teams:

NITARP Management:

Returning Alumni Teams:

Quotes

  • My biggest takeaway is to actually be on the receiving end of constructivist education. The experience was frustrating, intimidating, and … extremely fulfilling. I have learned a lot of things through this experience. I will be more cognizant of helping students through their frustrations and being open about wanting to help them learn. I plan on integrating our research into my science and education classes. I purchased a FLIR and made an infrared lab using the device for my physics course. I will also be better able to explain more aspects of astronomy and careers associated with the field.
  • [At the AAS,] Teachers and students experience real, dynamic science as it lives today, where there may be no answers, explanations that change with new data, and most importantly there is discourse between scientists so that they may learn from each other.
  • I do not think I can properly put into words what it meant to me for you to take the chance on me. I appreciate everything I have been given and will pay it forward to my future students. What an amazing experience!
  • Picking the most interesting aspect of the NITARP experience is extremely difficult because there were so many. I knew that I was going to learn new and interesting things but I literally had no idea how many interesting aspects I would be exposed to.
  • [student:] I think the most interesting thing was to see the number of females within the astronomy community as it feels as though women go underrepresented in many science fields. I did not anticipate as many women to be at IPAC or at AAS and I enjoyed seeing that.

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AAS - 2020