Chelen Johnson
Mining current optical and infrared databases to find variable active galactic nuclei.
Attended Kepler announcement of the new planets. Later that day teachers who were actually teaching in my high school e-mailed me to tell me about the planets just discovered. I had to tell them I'd known about that for hours. I was there at the announcement by the scientists involved.
After this experience, I’m more aware that beyond just teaching my students good science, my focus should be to prepare them for a career in science.
I actually felt like I was able to accomplish something that would have some meaning to the scientific community.
