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Round 1 - GLAST - Program News
Click on any teacher's name to see activities associated with NITARP.
Highlights of team activities
January 2006
The Spitzer AGN group has presented results at the 2006 Winter meeting
of the American Astronomical Society. Two posters were presented,
one dealing with the educational outreach efforts entitled
"Using Space Telescopes Observations in a Classroom Setting" and
one dealing with the scientific results entitled
"AGN Spectral Energy Diagrams of GLAST Global Telescope Network Object
4C29.45"
October 2005
Linda Stefaniak finished a long day of four back to back workshops at
the NJ Science Teacher's Convention during the first week of October.
She started with multiple wavelength astronomy and finished with
infrared. Both workshops were well attended and the video with Dr.
Thaller explaining IR was a huge hit. Everyone wanted a copy. Ms.
Stefaniak took digital images of some of the activities for possible
use as illustrations for the group's EPO poster. There was also an
astronomy teacher attending the IR workshop who was extremely
interested in knowing how to become one of the next generation Spitzer
teachers.
September 2005
Steve Rapp is in the planning phase right now for two workshops about
the Spitzer Space Telescope and Infrared radiation. One will be local
and the other will be at the VA state science teacher's convention.
Both of these workshops will happen in November.
July 2005
Jeff Adkins and his group are preparing to have some students meet before school starts in September to prepare for a proposal for the Teacher Observing Program in the fall related to our Spitzer project. All of the data is collected and awaiting everyone to come back from vacation to continue the analysis. A few of his research students next year have summer assignments related to the background for this project.
Students in Mr. Adkins' class are meeting with him over the summer for background training (they are doing the TLRBSE AGN and Stellar Spectroscopy packets as summer homework) and in August they will work on refining the ground-based light curves and those portions of the SEDS coming from our V,R, and I filtered images. Some preliminary light curves have been completed, but without error bars so they are not ready for distribution.
Steve Rapp is getting ready for workshops in October.
Linda Stefaniak is scheduled for a summer course on the Invisible Universe starting July 19.
She presented astronomy workshops and also attended a week long workplace readiness workshop the last week in June into July and got ideas for all her classes.
June 2005
longer work summary (pdf)
May 2005
longer work summary (pdf)
April 2005
longer work summary (pdf)
March 2005
Jeff Adkins:
The project web page is up and running. The address is:
http://homepage.mac.com/dvhscience/SpaceAcademy/Projects/Spitzer/index.html
Jeff presented a talk at the Stockton Astronomical Society about the Teacher Observing
Program and specifically this proposal. The presentation was well received and the
amateur astronomers were invited to join the GTN and participate in the observations.
Jeff's student Brielle Hinckley, a junior at Deer Valley High School, has started making
telescopic measurements of the target object using the New Mexico Skies remote
telescope facility. The TLRBSE remote observing program provided observing time, and
most recently Brielle spent 3 hours observing the target using a variety of filters. A
sample of one of these observations is posted on the web site and shows that 14" class
telescopes can effectively measure this target. Other Deer Valley students are
participating in the data reduction as an exercise.
Steve Rapp:
In April, both Jeff and Steve Rapp will be giving workshops on infrared science; Jeff at a
local workshop within his district and Steve at the NSTA convention in
Dallas.
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