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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:] The most surprising thing I learned was the amount of collaboration and communication between astronomers.
  • The learning was also enjoyable. As teachers, we’re always learning new techniques and strategies and educational stuff, but it’s rare to just be able to learn new content. It’s good to know the ol’ noggin still works (mostly).
  • [student:] Astronomy is hard, and it is not just looking through telescopes, there is a lot of math and critical thinking involved.
  • [student:] Finding out how much coding was involved in all areas of astronomy was surprising. But to be honest I found everything I learned here surprising.
  • [student:] The least surprising thing is that we’re all nerds. No matter the location, we all geek out over the same basic things.

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Summer Visit - 2024 - StarChasers