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AAS - 2014

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.

The 2013 and 2014 NITARP teams attended the 2014 January AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD (outside of Washington, DC). The 2013 class was presenting results and the 2014 class was starting up. We had a lot of alumni raise their own money to come back as well. We sent about 75 people to the AAS and had a grand time. Please see the special article on NITARP at the AAS. One of our participants, Peggy Piper, participated in a Congressional briefing on Thursday! All the posters we presented are linked from the team's pages below, except for HG-WELS and SIRXS, because they are the two new teams.

Quotes

  • [student:] Going to this really made me turn towards Astronomy more when thinking about plans for my future. It’s definitely really interesting and space is so...fascinating. I always liked it when I was little but I always had it set in my mind that becoming something like an astronomer was extremely difficult and nearly impossible...but coming to the AAS meeting has really made me consider trying for it.
  • I think that my NITARP experience is one of the best things that I have ever done in my life, both as an educator and as an individual. I have found that I really like doing research and plan to continue that in the future both with my students and as an individual.
  • [..] this experience for the students was golden. Having the chance to share this opportunity for learning with my students is by far the best thing that came out of the project.
  • Thanks again for this amazing opportunity. I really hope it can continues even in light of the difficult financial times. It would be a terrible loss if it went away because it feels a very specific niche that is not met by any other program I have seen.
  • [student:] Seeing the same people giving the talks coming into the cold to see stars made me realize that they were incredibly passionate about their work, not only as a scientific subject but as a personal mission. For me as a student, it helped me realize that it's more important to pursue a subject because you want to do it than to do so for the sake of pursuing a subject, and it will have a definite influence on my academic decisions.

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AAS - 2014