Chelen Johnson
Cosmic dIRt is examining the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
My takeaway lesson is that the students are much more tolerant of "issues" that make the research projects difficult to carry out and are generally content to be involved and learning something new.
While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.
NITARP has been the best experience I have ever had for my personal and professional development as an astronomy educator.
