99 participant Howard Chun helps a student searching for novae in the Andromeda galaxy. RBSE '99 participant James Love with his students and the RBSE solar telescope. New datasets are provided over the Internet and CD-ROM during the academic year. During the summer workship participants also build a RBSE solar telescope to take home and use with their classes. Astronomer Robin Ciardullo, student Ryan Westerlin, RBSE '98 teacher Tom Gehringer, NOAO director Sidney Wolff and student Matt Harriger at the AAS meeting in Atlanta.
Students present their research to fellow students, at science fair exhibits and to the public.
Students also publish their work in The RBSE Journal, an annual, refereed publication. Students presented their results on the RBSE nova search program at the 195th AAS meeting in Atlanta, Jan 2000. Our initial four-year funding expires in March of 2001. If approved it will provide funds for a new five year program, but we won't have the new program in place in time to offer a full workshop in the summer of 2001.