Chelen Johnson
Mining current optical and infrared databases to find variable active galactic nuclei.
I did not anticipate how exhausted I’d get [at my first AAS meeting].
I met a lot of people over the course of [my first AAS]. So many people were interested in chatting, especially with a high school physics teacher!
[The best thing about the trip was} Doing real science. I can't say enough how much I value the opportunity NITARP has given me to be part of real astronomy research for the first time in my career. Bringing back the knowledge, the feeling of not knowing, the drive to continue to find an answer and the skills that I needed to work in a group will be so helpful to me and my students.
