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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

Independent Research 2018

Independent Research 2018

These teams worked on their own and presented posters at the 2019 Winter AAS.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Doyle

    The experience has and will continue to help me develop more effective uses of NASA/JPL resources for me and to promote professional development.

  • Melton

    [In my classroom, I will] increase my emphasis that what is written in a textbook is not the final word on a subject. Science is an ever-evolving mechanism of discovery and nothing remains fixed in perspective or proof.

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    One of the things I love about astronomy is the very fact that we are not laboratory-bound scientists. Our lab is the universe, a constantly changing petri dish in the sky, so to say, and if you aren’t looking, you miss it!