AAS - 2022

The Winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting is usually 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 2020/21 and 2022 NITARP teams had planned to attend the 2022 January AAS meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. However, the meeting was entirely cancelled due to COVID. We still have this special article about the NITARP teams finishing and starting up. All of the posters from the 2020/21 teams we presented are here. Most of the 2020/21 teams came instead to the June 2022 AAS meeting in Pasadena, CA instead. Those posters were iPosters, so the PDF versions that are here are still the versions from Jan 2022, but the numbers are from June 2022.

Science Poster - 101.18 Strasburger et al., "OIRMA: Optical-Infrared Reverberation Mapping of AGN"
Education Poster - 242.05 Sharif et al., "Bringing Experiential Education into the Classroom"
Education Poster - 242.02 Rodriguez et al., "Promoting Student Interest in Astronomy Using Student-Delivered Professional Development"
Science Poster - 406.05 Rodriguez et al, "Visible and IR Light Curve Variability Analysis of Young Stellar Objects in IC417"
Science Poster - 406.06 Urbanowski et al., "Cataloging and Analysis of Young Stellar Objects in the Spider Nebular (IC 417) Using Archival Visible and Infrared Data"
Alumni poster - 242.04 Blackwell, "Opening of New Observatory Facility at Phillips Exeter Academy"
Alumni talk - 212.03 Granucci, "Authentic Astronomy Research Hybrid Course - A method to reach all level of learners in astronomy"
Alumni poster (Jan only) - Rutherford, "Sixteen Years of Astronomy Research at Sullivan South High School" (submitted to Salt Lake City, not going to Pasadena)

The 2022 class got started on Jan 9, just before when the winter AAS would have been held. There are two teams in 2022.

Quotes

Look at where my kids are now. Their resumes are leaps and bounds better. Their confidence in talking with other students, teachers, and scientists has gone off the charts. We really changed their paths.
This is the only experience I've seen in physical science where you are as much a scientist as anyone else. Often it feels the teachers are just spectators.
It has become commonplace for me to contextualize a concept, lesson or procedure through the reality of my NITARP experience. This makes the experience of my students live in a space in which the science itself is not a body of knowledge or a collective of results, but instead a living thing… in which they are participants already and that can grow with their engagement and growth in knowledge and skills. There is always a question for the now, a process for challenging ourselves to try to figure out an answer, and an infinite prospect for new question that arise from both the process of inquiry and the results obtained.
The NITARP experience is guided by Jedi Masters… they perceive the force and guide it to flow through the process in harmony with the dynamic interactions between the science, the data, the people, and the products that all need to dance together to achieve a meaningful result. The impact on the participants of NITARP is significant, measurable, positive and spiritually inspiring. We come out the “other side” of the NITARP experience a changed person in ways that we never could have created on our own… so THANK YOU, Thank You, thank you for the wonderful opportunity that is NITARP.
[student:] NITARP gives teachers and students a deeper appreciation of astronomy research and astronomy careers.

AAS - 2022

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