Chelen Johnson
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2013, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal NITARP team. In 2013, we have one article in The Physics Teacher, and one poster on young stars.
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 found it most interesting to see the scientific process in action. Scientists were questioning scientists, sometimes fairly aggressively.
[NITARP] is a fabulous experience – I feel like after several years I am understanding more of the talks, able to engage in a real conversation with astronomers, ask questions one on one, interpret more on posters – just feel more astronomically literate.
