{"id":139,"date":"2024-08-23T00:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:21:55","slug":"astronomy-high-school-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/astronomy-high-school-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy High School Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every summer we host an approximately 1-week residential &#8220;camp&#8221; for high school students from rising juniors to rising seniors. Our precollege event includes various hands-on learning activities both during the day and night. The most exciting part of the week is perhaps our night time open observing sessions using our vast array of telescopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfred.edu\/about\/summers-at-alfred\/summer-camps\/astronomy.cfm\">Apply to the program.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aura.alfred.edu\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/b8ca5608-ee29-47b0-b98c-39527c66a8de\/content#:~:text=Alfred%20University%20(AU\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aura.alfred.edu\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/b8ca5608-ee29-47b0-b98c-39527c66a8de\/content#:~:text=Alfred%20University%20(AU\">A little history of our camp from the archives.<\/a> Our camp started in 1998!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Class of 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250722_152025-350x263.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Group photo of the participants and staff, in front of the one of the observatory buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/summer-2025\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"280\"><strong>Photos from the week!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Class of 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/PXL_20240711_150825057.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Group photo of the participants and staff, in front of the one of the observatory buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer we host an approximately 1-week residential &#8220;camp&#8221; for high school students from rising juniors to rising seniors. Our precollege event includes various hands-on learning activities both during the day and night. The most exciting part of the week is perhaps our night time open observing sessions using our vast array of telescopes. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/astronomy-high-school-institute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astronomy High School Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}