Chelen Johnson
They Might Be Giants are using data from the Kepler mission to classify the brightness changes of giant stars in an effort to understand how the observed brightness variations of giant stars may relate to the different stages of giant star evolution.
Watching the students present the research we had been working on the last year was absolutely the best part of the experience for me. They made me so proud
NITARP is without a doubt one of the two most valuable pieces of professional development work I have done in 25 years of teaching, and by far the most rewarding content-related work. I think that what you are doing is really unusual and valuable.
In its current form, anyone with moderate computer skills and high school physics can download, explore, and begin to understand available data.
