Chelen Johnson
Investigtating Moving-group Photometry and Understanding Lightcurve Structures (IMPULS) will be studying rotation rates of stars in the young nearby Beta Pic Moving Group.
I have been in education for 4 decades and this one program has given me more confidence in teaching space science than any college training I ever did.
For me, [this project] was a real partnership between scientists and educators. All questions and suggestion were taken seriously and with respect.
I think that my NITARP experience is one of the best things that I have ever done in my life, both as an educator and as an individual. I have found that I really like doing research and plan to continue that in the future both with my students and as an individual.
