SummerVisit

At the moment, this is just a bulletized list of items we wish to cover. An actual agenda (with times and durations) as well as when these items occur will follow.

Sunday, 23 June

• Arrivals.
  • Lynn 1 adult 3 students pick up van 12:07 p.m. hang around airport or nearby beach to pick up Carol at 3:05 p.m. unless Carol arranges shuttle?
  • Peggy 1 adult 1:40 p.m. find Melissa's group for ride.
  • Melissa 1 adult 4 students pick up van 1:50 p.m.
  • Carol 1 adult 2 students 3:05 p.m., Lynn pick up or take SuperShuttle to Pasadena?
• Hotel - please double check your check out date is Friday, June 28 with Saga front desk.

NITARP pizza Gathering

6:30 pm

Keith Spaulding Building

Monday, 24 June

• 8:30 Introductions, Goals & Agenda (Babar) File:Visit slides.pdf
• 9:00 Tour of KS and meet Wannetta (Carolyn)
• 9:30 Primer on NGC 281 (Scott, via webEx). File:NGC281.pdf
• 10:30 Photometry kickoff

Protostar assignments. File:Adoptasource.txt

Keeping Notes

Naming conventions & rules

• 11:00 Photometry Experiences & Updates (1/2 hour presentation from the teams) I: West Coast

Peggy, Lynn

• Noon Lunch Break
• 1:00 Photometry Experiences & Updates (1/2 hour presentation from the teams) II: East Coast

Carol, Melissa

• 2:00 Photometry discussion and comparisons

What is a source?

Limits of survey?

• 2:30 Break
• 2:45 Photometry of NGC 281 using APT.
• 4:45 General Q&A
• 5:00 End of day 1.

Tuesday, 25 June

• 8:30 Announcements
  • Changes to schedule today.
  • "Programming volunteer needed"
• 8:40 Photometry & Programming
• 9:00 APT (Russ Laher)
• 10:30 Spectral Energy Distributions, their uses and color-color diagnostics (Elise Furlan)
• 11:30 Photometry, SED Q&A
• Noon Lunch
• 1:00 Plotting data in python
• 1:30 Photometry & Programming
• 3:00 Kim Burtnyk Interviews (20 min slots for each teacher).
• 4:15 Status report from Volunteers.
• 4:44 Piper stand up comedy minute.
• 4:45 General Q&A
• 5:00 End of day 2.

Wednesday, 26 June

• 8:00 Python Tutorial on plotting.
• Putting NGC 281 in context: Short presentations on other star-forming regions

8:45 Babar

9:00 Luisa

• 9:15 Photometry & Programming.
• Noon: Lunch
• 1:00 Band merging photometry

Basic concepts: Resolution differences, approaches and decision making, keeping notes.

• 1:45 Create SEDs of assigned protostars. Identify missing photometry.
• 3:00 Astronomy at Learning Works (Carolyn)

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/explore/blog/277-Bringing-Astronomy-to-Kids-in-Crisis

• 3:30 Assembling data and analysis (continued).
• 4:29 Piper stand up comedy minute.
• 4:30 End of day 3

Thursday, 27 June

JPL tour

• 1:00 Results (color, fluxes, SEDs) of assigned protostars

Interpreting the nature of these sources.

Where is it? East, West, Nowhere

• 2:00 Science analysis plans and assignments for the rest of NGC 281.
• 4:00 Big Picture for the rest of the year.
• 4:59 Piper standup comedy minute.
• 5:00 End of SHIPs visit.

SHIPs sit down dinner

• TBD

Friday, 28 June

• Departures.
  • Carol extended stay, 2 students 6:30 a.m. flight, shuttle?
  • Peggy extended stay.
  • Lynn 1 adult 3 students return van 6:10 p.m. flight.
  • Melissa 1 adult 4 students return van 10:35 pm. flight.

Evening excursions from the past

Our day time schedule is very structured, tends to be stressful/mindblowing and there is a hierarchy; Babar, teachers, students. My past groups have left the evenings to the design of the students. As a group they need to come up with where we are going, what we are going to do (wander is perfectly acceptable) and navigate us to these places (we drive, but they find and give directions). As much as possible we let them agree/disagree and come to a solution, we are just along for the ride (and a little supervision). The more these three separate groups of young people come together as a team, the more satisfying this experience will be for both adults and students.

Please add other ideas your group comes up with to these possible ideas are:

• First (Sunday) night, trip to nearby Target to pick up munchies/drinks for hotel and Caltech. Consider asking each person to contribute one object to munch (bag of chips, box of cookies, twizzlers, etc) for Caltech stash that we will leave in closet of our work room.
• Griffith Observatory
• Hike the Hollywood sign
• Santa Monica Pier, kids roam, adults sit and have meal
• Venice Beach = culture shock (in a good way)
• Walk the Universal City Walk
• One night, nice sit down dinner
• In and Out Burger seems to have some fascinated
• Mount Wilson (I haven't done, but other groups have)
• Sporting event (one group had big fan and those interested went to game, no idea what team, rest of group wandered the beach)
• Lunches - fast, need to get back to work!
• At least one meal in the Caltech cafeteria with time to stop at book store
• Walk to near by fast food, let kids scatter as long as no one goes alone, adults may choose to separate or use time to regroup w/o students
• Use travel from JPL back to Caltech to hit In and Out Burger or other interesting chain.
• Directions to In-and-Out burger http://goo.gl/maps/h0sh5
• Directions to Von (grocery store) http://goo.gl/maps/i2Hfw
• Directions to Target#1 http://goo.gl/maps/5659u
• Directions to Target#2 http://goo.gl/maps/KLCZj