Chemistry is difficult! However, there is a lot of great research working on ways to make the content more accessible and engaging for students and how students learn chemistry more broadly. Our research group is particularly interested in how we can engage students in chemistry and how students develop their science identity in a variety of different learning environments including traditional classrooms, teaching labs, and research labs. We use a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods for evaluating students in these environment. As we are new to the chemical education research (CER), we leverage the amazing expertise and resources of the CER community.