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AAS - 2025

The Winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting is the largest meeting of professional astronomers in the world. NITARP educators attend an AAS first to meet their team, then they go home and work remotely for much of the year, and then attend an AAS to present their results.  At any given AAS, then, we could have two NITARP classes attending - those finishing up, and those getting started. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

The 2024 and 2025 NITARP teams are attending the 2025 January AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD. The 2024 class is presenting results and the 2025 class is starting up. We had alumni raise money to come back as well. We sent about 40 people to the AAS and had a grand time. Please see the press release on NITARP from the AAS, and the special online article about NITARP at the AAS. All of the posters we presented are here. (In addition to the iPoster sessions as listed here, the physical versions of the 2024 teams' posters were up at the IPAC booth all day Tuesday.)

2024 teams:

Alumni:


Quotes

  • I feel like I got a better understanding of how those amazing images of objects in space are captured, analyzed and distributed to the public.
  • I was surprised to learn how user-friendly accessing data from the archives actually is, and I previously knew very little about IPAC specifically aside from the general knowledge that all the digital images are saved *somewhere* for potential future research.
  • [NITARP] greatly changed the way I think about the process of astronomy and how much work goes into the process of coming to new scientific discoveries.
  • [student:] astronomers are some of the most (typically speaking) friendly and passionate people I have met. [...] people are an amazing resource. Asking questions and networking really makes a difference.
  • Exposure to novel research at an early stage of secondary education (late high school, early college) has been demonstrated to have a strong impact on whether or not students choose to stay in a STEM field. For students who do not normally look at STEM as a potential career choice, being involved in something like this can literally change the course of their lives.

AAS - 2025