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Summer Visit - 2025 - HIPS-AGaiN

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 HIPS-AGaiN team came to visit in July 2025. The 4 core team educators attended, plus 6 students.

Quotes

  • [student:] I was expecting that the first couple of days would be a bit like acclimating to a foreign country, with all the science I needed to grow comfortable in. I knew that those first few days would be taxing, but by the end of the summer visit, I felt comfortable in myself and my knowledge of what we learned.
  • [student:] When we went to dinner last night, for about an hour, we couldn't stop talking about everything that we learned the day before, to the point where we had to say, ‘no more star talk.’ But we quickly violated that rule.
  • This was not an easy week. I really had to work.
  • Learning at a high level! It was so empowering not to have things watered down!! Having the freedom to ask questions about anything and have those questions be considered valuable, even when they were outside the bounds of our project, was very confidence inducing. I also liked how my student and I became “peers” in this project.
  • Shared, in-person, experiences lead to strong groups and strong groups lead to great results. I feel connected to my group on such a higher level now.

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Summer Visit - 2025 - HIPS-AGaiN