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NITARP Program News
January 2012
We once again sent about 60 people to the AAS and had a grand time.
Please see
special
article on NITARP at the AAS and our AAS
activity summary. We also got a smattering of coverage in local
media outlets.
Our very own Varoujan Gorjian is being honored at his
high school alma mater, and NITARP is listed in the citation!
Go Varoujan!
Our very own Chelen Johnson has been selected as a SOFIA Airborne
Ambassador! She will be working with Constance Gartner, who was
also involved with one of our NITARP teams. Way to go!
November 2011
The
2012 class has been selected! This year, we had more teachers than
ever apply -- about four times as many teachers applied as we had
spots. The competition was fierce. The class of 2012 are
non-traditional educators from museums and traditional classroom high
school teachers, middle school teachers and community college
educators. They are from big cities and small towns, the contiguous US
and Hawaii. They will study nearby things and far away things, at
wavelengths from the optical through microwaves. Look for results of
their projects in January 2013!!
May 2011
Since NITARP projects are original research projects, not canned labs
(no foolin'!), not every one results in anything more than the AAS
poster presentation. However, some do. The CG4 team last year did a great
job, and our journal article has recently been accepted to AJ, to
appear in July 2011. The punchline is that we found 16 new young
stars, where 'new' means 'new to science, at least on this planet' (as
opposed to 'newborn baby stars', though they are indeed young). See
the arXiv link for
the paper.
Two NITARP alumni (Cris DeWolf and Peggy Piper) have been selected for the
inaugural SOFIA educator flights.
Way to go, guys!
April 2011
Applications now being accepted for the program
starting in January 2012! Download the application instructions here, write your
answers, print to pdf, and then go to the application upload
site to submit it by Friday, September 23, 2011, 3pm PDT!
January 2011
Special
feature article on AAS attendees! There were nearly 60, about 2%
of the attendees at the AAS meeting!! We presented 9 posters.
Also see Luisa's
blog entry about this.
Finally, please see the page summarizing
our AAS 2011 experience.
November 2010
We are officially announcing our 2011 class!
Here
they all are.
October 2010
Offers have been made for the 2011 class.
September 2010
The application call is now closed!
August 2010
The application
upload site is now accepting applications!
The SED and VarStars teams came to visit IPAC.
July 2010
The LDM team came to visit IPAC.
June 2010
The CG4 team came to visit IPAC.
May 2010
Applications now being accepted!
Download the application instructions
here, write your essays, and then, starting in August, you can go
to the application
upload site to submit it by Friday, September 24, 2009, 3pm
PDT!
Also, there is a new Heat Transport by Radiation lab on the online resource page for the kit being mailed to
current NITARP participants.
April 2010
Several items are new:
February 2010
On Feb 1, we released a media notice
re: the participating teachers. A customized version of this went
to local media as provided by each participant.
January 2010
The new NITARP teachers attended the AAS in Washington, DC. For many
of them, it was their first AAS ever. They all had a great time, and
learned a LOT. There are now pages for each of them on the accomplishments page. The 14 teachers are spread
among 4 teams, and they are now all busily working on their proposals,
which are due in to IPAC in mid-February. There are pages for each team, but the abstracts won't
be posted until after their proposals are accepted.
We have created a review committee for the 4 anticipated proposals,
consisting of roughly half NITARP alumni teachers and half
professional astronomers (none of whom are team mentors!). (A BIG
thank you to Peter Plavchan, who has volunteered to chair this
committee.) This committee will meet at the end of February and
provide feedback to the teams. If the committee approves them, then
the proposals are officially accepted and the teams will get started
on their work in earnest!
August 2009
This document, by Tim Spuck, presents
a summary of the impact of this program between 2005 and 2009.
June 2009
- The program has been renamed, recast, and rebooted as the
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP)!
- Applications are now being accepted for Round 4, to start at the
January 2010 AAS meeting. Download the application instructions here, write your
essays, and then go to the application upload
site to submit it by Friday, September 18, 2009, 3pm PDT!
News from March 2005-May 2009
has been pulled off to a separate page.
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