Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica CARA Outreach -
Yerkes Summer Institutes A Sample Week Specific Examples
Pictures, The Yerkes Summer Insititutes (YSI) are annual events
organized by CARA for the Space Explorers Program. The high
school students (the Space Explorers) come up from Chicago to
Yerkes Observatory (in Williams Bay, Wisconsin) for a week in
August. The students sleep and eat near the Observatory at
George Williams College, but they spend their days (and a good
part of their nights) learning astronomy at the Observatory.
generally stay in the program for at least three years as high
school students, and now we're starting to get high school
students who have been with us even longer through the Young
Astronomers program. This has a significant impact on what and
how we teach The themes of the YSIs are on a three-year cycle:
The Solar System, The Sun and Stars, and The Galaxy. After three
years, there are enough new students in the Space Explorers
program that we start again with the S