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January 2014 updates for Ms. Weehler

Published: January 24, 2014

Cindy writes:

I just gave an all day workshop on teaching astronomy in 8th grade at the Texas Regional Collaborative to about 25 teachers.  It was fun, and I explained that my opportunities with RBSE and Spitzer allowed me to 1) get a better feel for how research is really done, and 2) really understand how astronomers use the tools of spectroscopy and H-R diagrams to study such distant objects. 

A NITARP pause: we are not expecting to be able to support a NITARP 2026 class as a result of the current funding uncertainty. We hope to resume in 2027.