NASA/IPAC Teacher
Archive Research Program

I've been involved in many professional development activities and this is by far the best one I've ever done

Chelen Johnson

Team Red Shift: Using Spitzer Space Telescope images to find clusters of galaxies at a large distance from the Earth.

The process of gathering and analyzing data was very important to help show my kids what real research is like. And since our data didn't come out nice and neat like some labs do, it really helped push my kids to think outside the box.
Watching the students present the research we had been working on the last year was absolutely the best part of the experience for me. They made me so proud
I have begun to grasp the mind-boggling amount of data being produced by this [astronomical] infrastructure.