AAS - 2016

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 2015 and 2016 NITARP teams attended the 2016 January AAS meeting in Kissimmee, FL. The 2015 class was presenting results and the 2016 class was starting up. We had many alumni raise money to come back as well. We sent about 50 people to the AAS and had a grand time. Please see the special article on NITARP at the AAS, and a special article on NITARP alumni at the AAS. All of the posters we presented are here:

• 2015 teams:
  • Science Poster - Odden et al., "Finding Young Stars in IC417"
  • Science Poster - Palmer et al., "An optical and near infra-red color-magnitude diagram for type I Active Galactic Nuclei"
  • Education Poster - Pruett et al., "Authentic Research in the Classroom: NITARP Teachers Connect Astronomy with NGSS"
  • Education Poster - Sanchez, et al., "NITARP: Effects on Student Participants"
• Returning Alumni teams:
  • Education Poster - Johnson, et al., "Google Classroom and Open Clusters: An Authentic Science Research Project for High School Students"
  • Education Poster - Bensel et al., "Survey of Light Pollution in the Rogue Valley, Southwest Oregon, St. Mary’s School, Medford, Oregon"
• NITARP Management:
  • Evaluations And Impact (presented as education poster): Rebull et al., "The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP): Updates"