All HS students
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  - Brief introductions of the HS students and mentors (all HS students)

  - Discussion of end of summer presentations / papers for science
    competitions in the fall and next spring (all HS students)

Astronomy & instrumentation HS students
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  - One week participation in Quarknet in early August

  - Events calendar

Astronomy HS students
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  - Unix, IDL, accessing the UCSC computers (remote, wireless, vs wired)

  - Accessing astronomy journal articles:
      NASA/ADS ->  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
      arXiv    ->  http://xxx.lanl.gov/form/astro-ph

  - Use of office space (ISB 356, ISB 2nd and 3rd floor common areas, CfAO
    common areas, etc)

  - Basic astronomical concepts:

        . RA/DEC coordinates
            - Reversed parity wrt longitude/latitude
            - Hours/min/sec of time vs degrees/min/sec of arc
            - RA is generally along small circles - cos(DEC) factor

        . Telescopes and instruments
            - Focusing light
            - cameras, spectrographs

        . Images and photometry
            - Point spread function
            - Meaning of magnitudes

        . Spectroscopy
            - Spectrum = series of images
            - Sky subtraction
            - Absorption/emission lines - relation to atomic physics
            - Doppler shift: radial velocity, redshift (distance in the
              context of expanding Universe)
            - Transverse velocities are difficult to measure