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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:] I didn't expect the days to feel so jam packed. I found it difficult to make time for meals and I still was only able to attend about half of the talks I wanted to see.
  • [student:] one thing that surprised me: the interest the people took in out research and us as students. Going in to the presentation, I was expecting to be ignored a majority of the time during our shift, but I was pleased when we actually talked to people a majority of the time. It was touching to me that people took the time out of their day to listen to us and give us tips as to how we could improve in the future in this research and as students.
  • Big changes for me: I am already much more committed to having my top students conduct high end research. I am more committed to having ALL my students ASK and ANSWER their own questions more often. I wonder how I can package this experience to share with other teachers.
  • [..] 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.
  • [student:] Probably the most interesting that that happened for me was that barrier between high school science and "real world" research was broken for me.

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AAS - 2014