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.
The research is a big part of it, but watching how someone else teaches this high level information is really useful for my own teaching.
For me as an educator, it was really rejuvenating to come out here (and bring a student with) and dive into actual astronomical research.
My observation was that [our students'] ideas for their future expanded with the whole experience. That science became more than a class but an endeavor in which they could participate.
