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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

  • [student:] I've learned that not everything will come easily (a valuable skill for me personally) and that sometimes I have to work hard and use my brain in different ways to understand what's going on.
  • I enjoyed working alongside my students in a way that felt very different from the typical classroom setting.
  • My favorite part was being able to open my mind to so many people that astronomy is their whole life. I loved meeting people and seeing how astronomy plays a part in their life, and reflecting to see how it could be a part of mine as I go off to college next year.
  • This experience has made me conscious of how important it is to have students work with real data. I will definitely seek out more opportunities to include real data in my lessons and labs.
  • [Talking to the 2012 students] provided a wonderful window into the student's perspective of the NITARP experience. I loved how they talked about seeing math as a way of communicating and for checking data...not as THE right answer type computations. Many then said that concept was new and they really appreciated it.

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AAS - 2013