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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:] This opportunity was a major turning point in my life and I will never forget the experiences I had, people I met and knowledge I learned.
  • This experience made me realize how much effort and work is put into research. [..]this experience in research has prepared me for what to expect in college research opportunities. It's not just push a button, get an answer -- we had to work and tweak and make improvements until we had our results. It was very satisfying to come up with our results; it's that feeling of "This is what I contributed to the astronomy community -- and I'm only in high school!"
  • [student:] Astronomy involves a lot more than I thought it did. I am now extremely interested in doing research. I think I learned what the scientific process is all about.
  • The experience made me want to take up astronomy when I get older.
  • The biggest change [in my classroom] I hope to make is to have my students do more science and more thinking then we normally do. So many of us science teachers do labs where the end is known (which is sometimes necessary to make sure they fit in a class period and that the students understand the concept we're trying to learn) but that's not really science.

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AAS - 2013