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Summer Visit - 2019 - IDYL

The summer visit to Caltech is 4 days long and is the only time during the year of work when all the participants on the team come together in person to work intensively on the data. Generally, each educator may bring up to two students to the summer visit that are paid for by NITARP, and they may raise funds to bring two more. The teams work at Caltech; the summer visit typically includes a half-day tour of JPL, which is a favorite site for group photos. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

The IDYL team came to visit in July-August 2019. The 4 core team educators attended, plus 5 students.

Quotes

  • I cannot think of anything that would have improved this experience.
  • Teamwork definitely helps to make complicated tasks a lot more manageable.
  • Working together in the same location IRL is crucial for a bunch of reasons: personal dynamics develop more rapidly. It is easier to tell if people are on the same page. You can change the mode more rapidly and flexibly (change from big group to small and back, work on paper, change to whiteboard, share multiple screens at same time).
  • I knew that there would be a lot of work to do going in to this week so I guess that is what was least surprising for me. I have been looking forward to this for a long time and I absolutely loved learning the specific math and physics behind what we are doing in our project. It makes me want to take more classes in astrophysics!
  • [student:] The work we did was intense, and I would be lying if I said I did not get confused more times than I would like to admit. However, being a part of a group was very helpful and I felt like we were a pretty good team. We helped each other figure it out.

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Summer Visit - 2019 - IDYL