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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

  • [student:] Real astronomy seems like a lot of melding of Boolean math principles with subjective reasoning, and it's really cool.
  • It is hard work here. Kids are DONE by the end of the day.
  • [student:] I think that real astronomy is not just looking at different things in space, but actually researching different things using math and coding. I did not realize how much math and coding that goes on for scientific research and how that whole process goes.
  • I’m looking forward to our results and to what generalizations we can make about our regions. I was also impressed (more so than surprised) by the receptiveness of the students to our project and work. Their diligence and enthusiasm was respectable.
  • [student:] The most important things I probably learned was how often we throw out data that we can't really do anything with. It took me a bit to internalize, but realizing the importance of being efficient sifting through usable/unusable data.

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Summer Visit - 2024 - StarChasers