Summer "Visit" - 2020 - OIRMA

Quotes

• Working together is crucial to the project so when one person fell behind or was confused, there were multiple people to help them get on track. I feel that we are even more comfortable working collaboratively after the 4 days and we were able to feed off of each other’s ideas and strengths regularly.
• I’m certain that I would not have been able to get the work needed done without the help of the group, teachers and students equally.
• Best thing was the collaboration with all involved and the students being more like peers.
• [student:] I was surprised that despite humanity’s extensive mapping of the sky, astronomers still might not have all the resources that they need, and that often they must creatively make do with what they have. To the surprise of everyone, the [...] catalog ended up being insufficient for our needs and we needed to expand our search. But even though the workflow of the project was not progressing in the way we expected, the team did not skip a beat in accepting it and moving forward.
• [The best thing was] Meeting and working with the entire team, seeing the teamwork of the group in action, and being impressed by the talents of the students involved. Also, feeling comfortable with the content and the procedure we will be using to get our data.

Related Teams

• OIRMA/Gorjian