“PARI provides accessibility to sophisticated instruments and offers learning experiences for students that are virtually nonexistent elsewhere. My Ph.D. thesis involved constructing a telescope and using it to collect data on M-dwarf stars. Unfortunately, I had no place to put the instrument. The PARI staff welcomed me, offered access to the site and provided assistance I don’t think I could have gotten anywhere else. If it had not been for PARI I would not have been able to collect the data I needed. My PARI experience affirmed what I wanted to do with my life.”