Chelen Johnson
The team examined the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
I was looking for ways that my students and I could get involved with real science and real astronomy, and NITARP is doing exactly that.
Seeing and hearing about scientists at work, on different projects, brought to life the reality of scientists doing scientific work.
...students, given an interesting task, could stay on task for hours at a time.