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Further delegate tasks to have someone who is the head of checking on piazza, someone who is in charge of the website/repo

Think of more ways to engage the students on the chat.

materials that can be used in 2021
https://github.com/bjfultn/sagan-2020

There are youtube lectures as well.

Have a better way of tracking reminder emails, such as a google spreadsheet.
Have a schedule of emails and stick to it.

at MAST:
https://archive.stsci.edu/contents/newsletters/october-2020/keplerk2-notebook-tutorial-collection?filterPage=news&filterName=news-filter

Consider using this fitting tutorial website:
https://www.allesfitter.com/home

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.08708.pdf

Consider for retention: a small fee that would stay within the program.
Studies have shown that people who make decisions/committments with their own money are more likely to follow through.

Bruce Macintosh lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfV6msahdA

Contact: Coalition for Education and Outreach
Specifically Dan Zevin for help contacting community colleges for Intro2Astro

Cal-bridge program mentioned by Mariska, and from colleague in So-cal was a good recruitment tool. Consider East-Bay community colleges too.

Consider using a .yaml file so that everyone is on the same page in terms of python versions.

Chetan, ML proposal
[email protected]

Consider using this fitting tutorial website:
https://www.allesfitter.com/home

cv_example.zip

LaTeX template for a CV, courtesy of Mariah MacDonald at Penn State.

https://github.com/semaphoreP/codeastro

The link to join your class (second bullet under Announcement about Piazza) leads me to a 404 Error.

potential explanation of mcmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U561HGMWjcw