Memories of RBSE 2000
RBSE 2000 Teachers RBSE Staff Solar Observing with Jeff and Don Steward Mirror Lab Vega-Bray Keeping Sane on Free Weekends Kitt Peak National Observatory The Daily Ritual CCD Image Gallery Construction Projects Don Sightings Other Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education RBSE State Map	Take 16 teachers from across the country, put them in one place with an overload of electronic equipment and set them loose on an unsuspecting southern Arizona. You've got RBSE 2000. The Use of Astronomy in Research Based Science Education is an NSF funded program designed to teach teachers how to guide their students through the realities of genuine scientific research. Weeks of intense instruction included the construction of solar telescopes, barn door trackers and reusable cameras, lectures on stellar spectroscopy, optics, the evolution of stars and galaxies, and using inquiry based lessons in a science class. Eight days of our four weeks were spent at the Kitt Peak National Observatory where we split our time between evening observing times photographing interesting objects. Some of the objects included the Dumbell nebula in the constellation Vulpecula and M3 a globular cluster located in the constellation Canes Venatici. We also recorded spectrographs of stars, galaxies and quasars and stayed up until sunrise playing hearts. Day timers spent hours perfecting their grasp of the image processing software that is at the heart of RBSE, building equipment and learning how to use it.

This is us at the 4 meter Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak. This telescope is the largest on the entire mountain and rises 17 stories above the top of the mountain. We are from left to right: Ed Roberts, Linda Stefaniak, Jim Hoffman, Richard Spitzer, Missy Holzer, Kate Meredith, Theresa Roelofsen, Walter Glogowski, Travis Rector, Helen Peyton, Andy Miller, Ginny Beal, Kaye Sullivan, Jean Young, Bob Groover, Scott Tracy, Jeff Lockwood, Amy Stoyles and Carl Katsu. Missing from the photo is Melynda Thomas.