What is NITARP? NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive
Research Program, gets teachers involved in authentic astronomical research.
We partner small groups of educators with a mentor professional astronomer for
an original research project. The educators incorporate the experience into
their classrooms and share their experience with other teachers. The program
runs January through January.
Applications are available annually in May and due in September.
This program, to the best of our knowledge, is completely unique in the
following two important ways: (1) each team does original research using
real astronomical data, not canned labs or reproductions of previously
done research; (2) each team writes up the results of their research
and presents it at an American Astronomical Society meeting (the AAS
is the professional organization for astronomers in the US). Each team
also presents the educational results of their experience in the program.
I want to know more!Many more
words on the history and philosophy of the program can be found
here.
LATEST NEWS:
Applications for the NITARP class of 2013 were due on Sep 21. The
oversubscription ratio is ~5, e.g., 5 times as many people applied as
we have spots! Read about our Summer 2012 activities!
