What is a day at YSPA like from a student’s perspective?
During the four-week on-campus program, mornings are normally spent in class in the Leitner Planetarium, learning about stellar physics, Calculus, observing techniques, etc.. Afternoon sessions are spent in the computer lab working on tutorials in data analysis and python programming in small groups with the faculty and student research teams. Students and staff get together for dinner every evening in the residential college, and then student teams observe about every other night in the observatory in four shifts from 8pm until 2am.