Launch Pad Day One, Who We Are and Why We're Here

It turns out that liveblogging generates a lot of material! So I'm going to split up each day into several entries.

First our instructors gave us their perspectives on the workshop.

Mike Brotherton: "I'm not going to be able to teach the world astronomy. But I can teach you people, in a week. Either give you a step up from what you learned in college, or some of you may not have a lot of math and science background, but we can give you a place to start, contacts, places to get information and ...