Chelen Johnson
It's really fun to do this project, not just by myself, but with a student.
What was especially important to me as an educator was the way that the students planned their own schedule of listening to research presentations [at the AAS] and reviewing poster presentations. The students were very active participants in the conference and they took away an amazing amount of information and excitement. One parent told me that her normally quiet son spent the entire weekend relating stories of the experience to his family and friends.
My robotics students are very wowed by the fact that I met a flight director for the Mars Curiosity Rover.
