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AAS - 2013

The Winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting is the largest meeting of professional astronomers in the world. NITARP educators attend an AAS first to meet their team, then they go home and work remotely for much of the year, and then attend an AAS to present their results.  At any given AAS, then, we could have two NITARP classes attending - those finishing up, and those getting started. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

We were out in force at the AAS 2013 meeting in Long Beach, CA! A record number of NITARP-affiliated people attended, including the 2012 class finishing up and the 2013 class getting going. The 80 or so NITARP-affiliated folks made up about 3% of the AAS attendees.

Special article on AAS attendees!  And don't miss Danielle Miller's blog!

Quotes

  • I feel like a popcorn kernel that has just burst open!
  • I thought I understood the level of attention to detail needed for science, but I was wrong. It was very eye opening.
  • [student:] The most interesting thing I learned was that astronomy is pretty much just another branch of physics. That may seem underwhelming but I had never explicitly connected the two before. Now that I have, I am even more excited to be an Astronomy-Physics major in college because I do not believe that it will difficult to reconcile them.
  • I have already talked to my department about adding an astronomy research class to our class choices next year and they are very enthusiastic.
  • I didn't anticipate how nice everyone was going to be to us as high school students at the conference -- everybody who stopped by was very encouraging and seemed impressed by the fact that we were there, let alone making a decent presentation.

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AAS - 2013