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NASA/IPAC Teacher
Archive Research Program

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I've been involved in many professional development activities and this is by far the best one I've ever done

Chelen Johnson

SCHARP/Rebull

SCHARP/Rebull

The Sharpless CHARcuterie Playground (SCHARP) team will be studying several targets selected from the Sharpless (1959) catalog to see if there are young stars therein.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Piper

    How cool for the kids see a poster right next to theirs being presented by three university professors on one side and a graduate student on the other.

  • Img_9306

    For me it was not so much in seeing what format -- but in what flow. Varoujan Gorjian’s reflections on this teaching and telling the story of science led me to wander posters and see where the story flowed.

  • Albin

    The research is a big part of it, but watching how someone else teaches this high level information is really useful for my own teaching.