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Round 1 - IC2118 Program News
Click on any teacher's name to see activities associated with NITARP.
- Tim Spuck (Oil City Area High School, Oil City, PA)
- Theresa Roelofsen (Bassick High School, Bridgeport, CT)
- Babs Sepulveda (Lincoln High School, Stockton, CA)
- Cynthia Weehler (Luther Burbank High School, San Antonio, TX)
- Tony Maranto (Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH)
Highlights of team activities
January 2006
The Spitzer IC 2118 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
"Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students:
Young Stars in the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)" (ADS
abstract)
and one presenting their research results entitled "Spitzer
Observations of Young Stars in the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)"
(ADS abstract).
November 2005
On November 8th, Theresa Roelofsen ran an Astronomy workshop for 30
middle school teachers that all teach in the Bridgeport District. It
was 3 hours long and she had them do activities that they can use in
their science classes, as well as demonstrated other activities.
October 2005
Cynthia Weehler presented 2 workshops at San Antonio Regional
Science/Math Saturday on Oct. 15, to teachers from around Texas;
"Incredible Infrared: Feeling and Hearing Light" and one on the
Spitzer Teacher Research Project.
Ms. Weehler presented two workshops at the Conference for the
Advancement of Science Teachers (CAST) in Houston, TX, on Oct. 27-29.
These workshops were co-presented with Babs Sepulveda and each was 1.5
hours long. She also gave our website to a NASA clearing-house group
at the conference who had heard of us by word of mouth only but had
placed us in their brochure. Ms. Weehler used the Texas Public
Radio Station (KSTX) recording studio and equipment for student
Jessica Herrera to interview Dr. Tom Soifer from San Antonio about the
Spitzer Telescope and Teacher Research Program. Jessica used this
information to write a story for The Harvest News, the Burbank High
School student paper. She was also interviewed by Rolando Martinez for
The Communicator, the San Antonio Independent Schoo l District
newsletter. The Spitzer Program has now been written up three times in
school district newsletters. Student Jessica Herrera and Ms.
Weehler were both interviewed by Ernie Villarreal at KSTX for a story
that he will produce in January, to be aired before the AA S
conference in Washington D.C. where we will present our poster papers.
Jessica has been working on making tri-color images using Maxim DL and
writing a composite of the surveys that the teachers and students in
the group answered after the trip to the SSC in Pasadena. Ms
Weehler has been working on writing and submitting the abstract for
the educational poster paper for IC 2118, and is currently working on
putting the poster paper together from submissions from members of the
group.
September 2005
The second group of 4 teachers and 3 students from the "Young Stars in
IC2118" team has visited the Spitzer Science Center to work on data
analysis with contact scientist Dr. Luisa Rebull. The visit was a
great success for all. The group was interviewed by a reporter from
the Valley Sun.
Cynthia Weehler has been working hard to get an Astronomy class,
Science Research and Design course, or anything that will allow her to
include students in the Spitzer research.
August 2005
The first group of teachers and students from the "Young Stars in
IC2118" team has visited the Spitzer Science Center to work on data
analysis with contact scientist Dr. Luisa Rebull. The visit was a
great success for all. Mr. Spuck and two of his students Brittany
Ehrhart and David Bowser, from the "Young Stars in IC2118" team, were
featured in a Titusville Herald Article in the August 30, 2005 issue.
The article was titled: "Final Frontier."
April 2005
Longer work summary (pdf)
March 2005
The Spitzer Space Telescope conducted our requested observations using
MIPS and IRAC. The MIPS data has been made available to us thanks to
Dr. Luisa Rebull and the Spitzer Team. The images are attached below
(made March 2005):
24 microns
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70 microns
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160 microns
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All three combined
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The data were converted from 32 bit to 16 bit. The current
version of Hands On Universe Image Processing software requires 16 bit
images.
Longer work summary (pdf)
February 2005
Longer work summary (pdf)
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