NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP)

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Education & Outreach Debbie Edwards Sherando High School Stephens City, VA January 2012 Ms. Edwards came to the AAS to present her posters with her team. Please see the AAS 2012 page for photos and quotes. She writes: I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to participate in the NITARP program for the past year. I gained experience that I never thought I would be capable of, gained many new resources, and learned more that I ever expected. It has been a very unique and productive experience and I am proud of both the scientific research we accomplished and the educational aspects that were brought to our school systems. [...] This experience convinced me even further that I can push myself to learn even more each and every day. I started out feeling very overwhelmed and unprepared last year. I forced myself to work through my unease and wound up much more comfortable. I learned that astronomers are much more down-to-earth than I envisioned a lot of them to be and so many of them are very willing to go out of their way to explain things when we have questions. August 2011 Ms. Edwards visited IPAC in August 2011. Please see the Summer 2011 visits page for photos and quotes. January 2011 Ms. Edwards is a new NITARP educator this year, and has just started with her team. Please see the AAS 2011 page for a summary of the new class's activities. She attended the AAS in Seattle and is looking forward to getting started on working with Kepler data with her team. Ms. Edwards got some great video coverage from her school system! Jeff Adkins | John Blackwell | Jacqueline Barge | Christopher Border | Kareen Borders | Robert Bonadurer | Merrill Butler | Lauren Chapple | Joseph Childers | Howard Chun | Wendy Curtis | Richard DeCoster | Stacy DeVeau | Harlan Devore | Cris DeWolf | Velvet Dowdy | Thomas Doyle | Dean Drumheller | Debbie Edwards | Mike Ford | Debbie French | John Gibbs | Peter Guastella | Rosa Hemphill | Ardis Herrold | Vivian Hoette | Chelen Johnson | Virginia Jones | Adam Keeton | Susan Kelly | Marcella Linahan | Thomas Loughran | Carolyn Mallory | Anthony Maranto | Christoper Martin | Kevin McCarron | Matthew McCutcheon | David McDonald | Shefali Mehta | Cindy Melton | Kate Meredith | Lauren Novatne | Kathryn O'Connor | Caroline Odden | Jeffrey Paradis | Vincent Pereira | Helen Petach | Peggy Piper | Peter Pitman | Elizabeth Ramseyer | Steve Rapp | Theresa Roelofsen Moody | Denise Rothrock | Diane Sartore | John Schaefers | Sally Seebode | Babs Sepulveda | Timothy Spuck | Darryl Stanford | Linda Stefaniak | Dwight Taylor | Jennifer Tetler | Beth Thomas | Cynthia Weehler | Lynne Zielinski

Funding for NITARP comes from the NASA ADP program and NASA/Archive EPO program.

Questions? E-mail nitarp -- at -- ipac DOT caltech DOT edu