• NASA
  • IPAC

NASA/IPAC Teacher
Archive Research Program

How it works

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

Chelen Johnson

SED/Howell and Hoard

SED/Howell and Hoard

Spectral Energy Distributions and Epsilon Aurigae: Using multiwavelength data to study the disk and companion of Epsilon Aurgae and the planetary nebula My Cn 18.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Benter

    Being a mentor teacher is easy because these teachers are fantastic. They're just off and running with the project.

  • Wommack

    Participating in NITARP has made me more confident about teaching Astronomy and communicating to students about how archive Astronomy research is done. They are surprised to learn that even THEY could do Astronomy research. My students and I had such a experience (they LOVED the JPL tour) and I'd love to participate again because I have some new students that I think would love this program!

  • Johnson

    Of all the professional development programs in which I have been involved, NITARP continues to rank among the top few. The opportunity to work with a world-class astronomer and alongside teachers and students across the country on a real research project is amazing!