Teaching and Outreach

Prison Teaching Initiative

I am an instructor/tutor at Princeton University’s Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI). For spring 2025, I am one of the instructional staff teaching a pilot course on hands-on astronomical data analysis with Python (a challenging format because the students cannot access the internet at all and can only use computers during class time), and it is also the first time PTI is offering a class formally registered at Princeton.

TA

At UW-Madison, I was a TA for Astronomy 103 “The Evolving Universe: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology” in spring 2023. This was an introductory course for non-majors.

Wisconsin

As a graduate student, I have led public observing sessions of the historic 15.6″ refractor at UW-Madison’s Washburn Observatory. I have also led observing sessions at state parks throughout Wisconsin as part of the “Universe in the Park” program.

Splash!

I have taught numerous classes for high school (and occasionally middle school) students as a volunteer teacher for MIT’s student-run Educational Studies Program, including Splash!, Spark!, and HSSP. You can find a complete catalog of my past classes on my teacher’s bio page.

A list of distinct classes I taught includes

SSP

I was a TA for Summer Science Program’s Astrophysics Program in 2020. I was previously a student participant in 2013.

Because SSP was being held online for the first time ever due to the covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 TAs had to bear significantly higher teaching duties compared to past years. Some generic math and physics materials I personally prepared include