October 2011
Elizabeth Ramseyer, Peggy Piper, and Richard DeCoster included NITARP
in talks given at the Illinois Science Teachers Association meeting in
October 2011.
Spring 2011
The Niles West teams presented to the school board and audience (at
least 30 people) both of their Science Posters (Feb 28).
We will also present our education posters to the Chicago Section of
the AAPT April 9th. Again approx 30 people.
January 2011
Ms. Ramseyer presented the results of her 2010 team's work at the
Seattle AAS in January 2011. Here is the team's science poster and education poster.Please see
the AAS 2011 page for a
summary of this team's activities.
Ms. Ramseyer again enoyed her AAS experience. She writes:
Turner and Kolb's Dark Matter/Dark Energy talk was a big hit with my
students. They had many questions afterwards. [...] The information
received in the lecture showed my students that there are so many more
questions to answer in our Universe. I believe it also opened their
eyes to the life of an astronomer/researcher. [...] I think it also
was an invaluable experience for them to see that it is "ok" to ask
questions. Questions are what drives science. [...] [I] will enjoy
finding excellent tidbits [out of the materials I collected] to use in
[my] classroom.
July 2010
Ms. Ramseyer visited IPAC with her students in July 2010.
Please see the Summer 2010 visits page.
January 2010
Ms. Ramseyer is a new NITARP teacher this year, and has just started with her team.
She is excited about getting kids involved in the program.
She enjoyed the AAS meeting, and writes that one of the big things she learned was from
the NSF public policy session: "NSF talk was interesting in that I found that there
was so little money awarded." She also learned about some work with Girl Scouts
and is investigating using some of those activities with her local troop.
Jeff Adkins
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John Blackwell
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Jacqueline Barge
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Christopher Border
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Kareen Borders
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Robert Bonadurer
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Merrill Butler
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Lauren Chapple
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Joseph Childers
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Howard Chun
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Wendy Curtis
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Richard DeCoster
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Stacy DeVeau
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Harlan Devore
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Cris DeWolf
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Velvet Dowdy
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Thomas Doyle
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Dean Drumheller
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Debbie Edwards
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Mike Ford
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Debbie French
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John Gibbs
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Peter Guastella
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Rosa Hemphill
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Ardis Herrold
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Vivian Hoette
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Chelen Johnson
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Virginia Jones
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Adam Keeton
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Susan Kelly
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Marcella Linahan
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Thomas Loughran
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Carolyn Mallory
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Anthony Maranto
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Christoper Martin
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Kevin McCarron
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Matthew McCutcheon
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David McDonald
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Shefali Mehta
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Cindy Melton
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Kate Meredith
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Lauren Novatne
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Kathryn O'Connor
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Caroline Odden
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Jeffrey Paradis
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Vincent Pereira
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Helen Petach
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Peggy Piper
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Peter Pitman
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Elizabeth Ramseyer
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Steve Rapp
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Theresa Roelofsen Moody
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Denise Rothrock
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Diane Sartore
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John Schaefers
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Sally Seebode
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Babs Sepulveda
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Timothy Spuck
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Darryl Stanford
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Linda Stefaniak
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Dwight Taylor
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Jennifer Tetler
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Beth Thomas
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Cynthia Weehler
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Lynne Zielinski
