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Summer Visit - 2012 - C-WAYS

The summer visit to Caltech is 3-4 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 C-WAYS team came to visit in July 2012. The core team educators attended, plus 12 students, and two additional scientists.  Dr. JD Armstrong (LCOGT/UH) and Dr. Babar Ali (IPAC) also assissted.


Quotes

  • This has made me re-think what I want to do in college and my future.
  • I used to think astronomy was mostly just looking through telescopes, but this experience proved me wrong.
  • [student:] I had a newfound view of the work that astronomers must do to gather the answers they seek.
  • The most important thing I did was learn.
  • [Astronomy] proved to be far more interesting than I thought previously possible.

Summer Visit - 2012 - C-WAYS