Chelen Johnson
Mining current optical and infrared databases to find variable active galactic nuclei.
You really do become co-learners with the students.
What was especially important to me as an educator was the way that the students planned their own schedule of listening to research presentations [at the AAS] and reviewing poster presentations. The students were very active participants in the conference and they took away an amazing amount of information and excitement. One parent told me that her normally quiet son spent the entire weekend relating stories of the experience to his family and friends.
My students were really impressed when I gave them just a summary of some of the stuff we did and saw [at the AAS]!
