Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu) gets teachers involved in authentic astronomical research using the same online astronomy data archives as professional astronomers. We partner small groups of educators with a professional astronomer mentor for a year-long original research project. The teams experience the entire research process, from writing a proposal, to doing the research, to presenting the results at an American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. This talk will provide an overview of the program, highlighting use of real data in astronomy educator professional development experiences.

About Luisa Rebull

Dr. Luisa Rebull is a professional astronomer working at IPAC at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA). She studies how stars form and how stars rotate as a function of time and mass. She works for NASA's Infrared Science Archive (IRSA; https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu) which is NASA's repository for long-wavelength data. Luisa's job is to help make that data accessible to the astronomy community -- which includes educators. She also runs a program called the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP; https://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/) which partners small groups of educators with research astronomers for a year-long authentic research project.

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