Chelen Johnson
These teams worked on their own and presented posters at the 2019 Winter AAS.
Seeing and hearing about scientists at work, on different projects, brought to life the reality of scientists doing scientific work.
Mentoring adults in these capacities [as a NITARP mentor educator] improves my ability to act more as a mentor to my classroom students, allowing them to become more self-sufficient learners. I feel this has improved my ability to mentor my colleagues as well.
While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.
