Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• Luisa is a master of searching for the image needed to clarify a concept while simultaneously providing the introductory context in which it needs to be understood. Your guidance always feels so authentic. You recognize our limitations, and openly talk about them in a way that makes it clear that you view them as a movable barrier that can be pushed to new places if we just keep putting in the work and ask our questions as they form.
• Getting to work with this group of passionate, curious, and bold individuals as we all experienced the processing of learning how to be a researcher was the best part of the NITARP summer learning experience. Integrating all the separate pieces of knowledge and skills that we developed over the last five months into a tool for forming a new understanding of what is in IC417 felt amazing.
• [student:] I feel like real astronomy is working with real data from the real world that no one has looked at or touched before. Throughout this entire process, I've felt like I have done real astronomy and have been making new, exciting discoveries that will contribute to humanity's understanding of the cosmos no matter how small that may be.
• 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 discovered that there was more math involved in the work than I assumed there to be.

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