March 2012
Mr. Gibbs will be presenting about his NITARP experiences at
the Oregon AAPT spring meeting.
February 2012
Mr. Gibbs and his students presented their work at the school board
meeting, and were officially recognized for all the work they did. He
adds, "This has by far been the best professional development program
I have ever been involved with."
January 2012
Mr. Gibbs brought 4 students with him to present their posters at the
AAS. Please see
the AAS 2012 page for photos
and quotes. He also got some nice
media coverage. He and his students were asked to present at
a faculty meeting, and did very well. He writes:
We finally had a staff meeting this morning and the kids presented our research and
shared our experiences to the entire staff. They did an outstanding job and many of
our teachers have commented to me how impressed they were by what they did. One of
our teachers (and MIT grad) asked a couple of good questions and commented afterward
to me he was impressed that they could explain the answer (noting that they were not
just number crunching). Our principal now wants us to present to the school board so
he is going to check into it.
December 2011
Mr. Gibbs' team got front-page coverage in their student newspaper!
Read the article here.
October 2011
Mr. Gibbs' school district put on a science and tech night on Oct 25,
and their team put up a board for the BRC project. He writes, "Tadvana
and Tommy were there explaining what we were doing and it was very
well received, so that was really great!"
September 2011
Mr. Gibbs and his team were featured on their
school district's home page.
July 2011
Mr. Gibbs brought 4 people with him to his team's Pasadena visit in
July 2011. Please see the Summer 2011
visits page for photos and quotes.
January 2011
Mr. Gibbs is a new NITARP educator this year, and has just started
with his team. Please see
the AAS 2011 page for a
summary of the new class's activities.
He particularly enjoyed the AAS, not just for the purpose of meeting
his NITARP team, but also the larger experience. He writes:
Having the opportunity to get new ideas from my peers and discuss
projects, activities and strategies helps me to grow and keeps me from
becoming stagnant in my teaching. Programs like this are like gold to
me because the financial situation in the district in which I teach is
such that there is no money available to send our faculty to national
conferences. In addition to this, some of my students will be
benefitting directly as I currently have 7 students interested in
being part of our research team for NITARP. My first day back from
the conference I spent the class time sharing with them the exciting
news regarding exoplanet research from Dr. Marcy's presentation on
Monday as well as a discussion on YSOs and the likely direction that
our project will take.
[...]Finally, during a session on astronomy education I brought back some
ideas that I will likely be implementing in my second semester
astronomy classes this year.
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