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Steve Jones

Mr. Steve Jones

Steve Jones

FCS Innovation Academy, Alpharetta, Georgia


Grades or community reached

11, 12


Job Title

Teacher


Bio

Mr. Jones is part of the NITARP 2025 class.


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  • There are very few of us that teach astronomy in our county, so I'd really like to improve the astronomy program in the county.

  • I love having this experience of seeing how astronomers work, and my goal is to then take that and be able to explain it to our students.

  • Since I teach students how to do research, it would be cool if I was doing research too and show them that I don't know what's going to happen, and I'm doing the same type of stuff that they are doing in research class. I wanted NITARP to help make me a better teacher in research and a better teacher in astronomy.

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The 2026 NITARP application is now available! Go here for the instructions. Applications are due by 3pm Pacific time, Monday Sep 15, 2025. (NOTE: contingent on availability of funds and AAS travel!)