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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

Independent Research 2010

Independent Research 2010

This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2010, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal NITARP team. Four different teams presented results in 2010!

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Kilts

    Thank you so much for coordinating what is a transformative experience for all involved!

  • Debbie

    While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.

  • Thompson

    The more I talked with astronomers and support staff at the different booths [at my first AAS], the more I began to realize that being a teacher, and an amateur astronomer, is really very different from being a professional astronomer.