Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [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.
• [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.
• [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:] there is a lot more programming than I thought there would be.
• [student:] I discovered that there was more math involved in the work than I assumed there to be.

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