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Summer Visit - 2024 - StarChasers

The summer visit to Caltech is 4 days long and is the only time during the year of work when all the participants on the team come together in person to work intensively on the data. Generally, each educator may bring up to two students to the summer visit that are paid for by NITARP, and they may raise funds to bring two more. The teams work at Caltech; the summer visit typically includes a half-day tour of JPL, which is a favorite site for group photos. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

The StarChasers team came to visit in July 2024. The 4 core team educators attended, plus 12 students.

Quotes

  • I expected that we would be engaged the whole time and we were!...and tired afterwards! Whew!
  • [student:] The best thing about the trip was the fact I got to do so much stuff that I had never done before. This was such an amazing opportunity to learn about not just the field of astronomy but also about myself. I found out that I actually enjoy interpreting data which I definitely did not think would’ve been fun before.
  • [student:] Astronomy is hard, and it is not just looking through telescopes, there is a lot of math and critical thinking involved.
  • [student:] ALSO I WAS VERY HAPPY WE USED IMAGES OF THE STARS! It was very cool to see the stars, I thought I would but it was still super cool to look at actual recorded data from telescopes.
  • The best thing, as always, was working and playing with such great people: the other teachers, their students, my students, and you professional astronomers. It made it so much more enjoyable than just sitting at a screen all day, even a screen full of stars.

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Summer Visit - 2024 - StarChasers