Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• The interactions with our peers is the essential element for transforming isolated bits and pieces into a coherent understanding of what we are doing, how we are going to get the work done, and understanding what patterns in the data will mean. It was transformative!
• [student:] Working with all the real star data from different telescopes and satellites really made what we were doing feel important. It wasn’t like we were working with numbers made up from some textbook; we were actually analyzing and categorizing stars in a nebula out in space. Super cool.
• [student:] Real astronomy is mostly looking at data and numbers. I didn’t realize we would be using so much math these last few months, so it’s important to remember how closely math and science correlate.
• [the qualities of an astronomer are:] Math and patience. Maybe not in that order.
• The BEST thing about the week was seeing everyone rise to the opportunity to do this over Zoom. Seriously. There was a possibility of being burned out by “yet another Zoom”, or distractions from being at your home. Yet, we appeared to have the full buy in and attention for the entire time. I’m really proud of what we accomplished.

Related Teams

• Spider/Rebull