Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• The summer meeting was the essential moment that transformed all of the separate pieces of our knowledge and skill building into an integrated and meaningful process for carrying out our research project. Seeing this all come together over these precious days together, even with the challenges and limitations of a Zoom environment, felt awesome. The final day of independent discussion without Luisa was a critical element in producing this transformation. We HAD to figure out our process. This is as authentic of an “assessment” as we could have regarding the week's progress.
• [student:] I thought that astronomy was organized and well-ordered, but I have come to realize that it is all over the place which isn't at all a bad thing. It's a process of many open windows, many double checks, and many minor mistakes but it always seems to work out for the best.
• [student: The best thing was] Being able to work with other people around the country and feeling the satisfaction of correctly working on data that I assumed I would not be able to understand.
• [the best thing about the week was] Being amazed, again, by the contributions of our students. We teachers are constantly urged to have students work in groups, but that so often fails in real life. Here in NITARP it works – just get out of their way and let them amaze you. Having said that, the best thing was the experience of being a student, of being in a cross-generational community of learning and discovery.
• [student:] we are working on more in depth and hard things than we were before the work week. We are talking more and meeting more than we were before.

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• Spider/Rebull