Formal Education

As part of our efforts to work with the formal education community (that is, generally K-12 schools), the Chandra EPO team works with the National Science Olympiad. The Olympiad is an excellent science competition that involves middle and high school teams from all 50 states, often getting kids involved at an even earlier age.

Jeffrey Silverman was part of the very successful Science Olympiad team from Troy High School (Fullerton, CA) team in 2001. He is now finishing his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he works mainly on exploding stars known as supernovas including 2006gy and this recent news-grabbing event. We asked Jeffrey to share with us some of his experiences during the Science Olympiad and how they helped shape his choices once he got to college and now into graduate school and beyond.

Sambath Kol (known as Simba) relates his experiences with the Chandra Astrophysics Institute in this third article of the series. (Continued from Part II)

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Peter Ashton relates his experiences with the Chandra Astrophysics Institute as an assistant instructor and as a former student. (Continued from Part I)

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The Chandra Astrophysics Institute (CAI), a Chandra X-ray Observatory-sponsored program run by the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is intended for students from the Boston area from a wide range of academic backgrounds with a limited opportunity to directly experience authentic science. Students may be interested in exploring a science career, or looking to develop research, technology and collaboration skills valuable for college or work in ANY field.