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Title:
The Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students: Overview
Authors:
Rebull, Luisa M.; Gorjian, V.; Hermans, L.; Howell, S.; Isbell, D.; Pompea, S.; Rudnick, G.; Thaller, M.; Spitzer Teacher Program Team
Affiliation:
AA(SSC/Caltech/JPL), AB(JPL), AC(SSC/Caltech/JPL), AD(NOAO), AE(NOAO), AF(NOAO), AG(NOAO), AH(SSC/Caltech/JPL), AI()
Publication:
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #05.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.734
Publication Date:
12/2007
Origin:
AAS
Bibliographic Code:
2007AAS...211.0509R

Abstract

The Spitzer Science Center (SSC) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) have designed a program for teacher and student research using observing time on the Spitzer Space Telescope. This program has as its goals the fundamental NASA goals of inspiring and motivating students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to engage the public in shaping and sharing the experience of exploration and discovery. Our educational plan addresses the NASA objectives of improving student proficiency in science and improving science instruction by providing a unique opportunity to a group of teachers and students to observe with Spitzer and work with Spitzer archival data. This program allows a team of teachers and their students to use Director's Discretionary Time on the Spitzer Space Telescope for educational observations, thereby getting scientific research into the classroom. More than fifteen conference posters or journal articles have resulted from this project, with more being presented at this AAS meeting. We have won a NASA group achievement award in 2007. We believe that this project provides a potential model for outreach efforts on other NASA missions, including particularly WISE, where plans are already underway to follow this model. For more information, please see our companion poster (Spuck et al.) or visit the wiki on which we are sharing materials developed by our teacher-scientist teams: https://coolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/
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