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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 didn't think that a background in programming would be so useful.
  • [As a result of this experience,] I will definitely be involved in research in college starting my freshman year.
  • You really do become co-learners with the students.
  • The Aperture Photometry Tool (APT) poster really solidified my interest in computer programming. [...] He showed me that programming is intricate (and sometime tedious) art. It gave me a new appreciation of programmers who innovate so that the rest of us might have a less painstaking way of collecting data and/or using resources.
  • I have a much better sense of what research astronomy is about now, and I think I will have more confidence to try new things (related to astronomy) going forward.

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AAS - 2013