Summer "Visit" - 2020 - OIRMA

Quotes

• [student:] Through technical and scientific issues, it turns out that astronomers (and scientists as a whole) are team players more than soloists. Their goal is on completion rather than competition. Furthermore, astronomy as a field rewards patience and perseverance rather than serendipity.
• It was very interesting that we had to immediately pivot our plans. It doesn’t get more authentic than when Plan A didn’t work, and as a team we had to talk out our next steps on how to find applicable data. It has also been very interesting to see how that develops as we all branch into our own pieces of the research, and how that dialogue continues.
• I’m certain that I would not have been able to get the work needed done without the help of the group, teachers and students equally.
• [Astronomers need to be] Patient, analytical, flexible and willing to change and being ok with not finding the answers they were hoping for.
• Working together was super powerful because with many eyes on the same problem it takes less time to find new avenues and catch missteps.

Related Teams

• OIRMA/Gorjian