Chelen Johnson
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2015, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
The more I talked with astronomers and support staff at the different booths [at my first AAS], the more I began to realize that being a teacher, and an amateur astronomer, is really very different from being a professional astronomer.
The NITARP experience was terrific from start to finish – well organized, informative, and unique.
I thought the talks and posters were great. Watching scientists talk to each other and question each other was interesting.
