American Physical Society

Week 6

Friday, July 19, 2013

Dayton Syme

It has been a few very busy days at the office. I have finished a large portion of my projects that were set out for me at the beginning of the year.

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Week 5

Friday, July 12, 2013

Dayton Syme

It has been very fun to meet and talk with all of the interns around the Department of Education. On Thursday, there was a 21+ intern social. We did what many people do in DC after work – we went to happy hour. I met about 20 interns from different departments and background.

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Week 4

Friday, July 5, 2013

Dayton Syme

Already past my fourth week, and coincidentally it was the Fourth of July week! I didn’t want to have any work over my 4 day weekend so I dug in and hammered through as much work as I could get done. And wonderfully enough, I finished three projects leading into Thursday.

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Week 3

Friday, June 28, 2013

Dayton Syme

Another fun week. I started at the Department of Education on Monday, and ever since, the week has flown by. I met my boss, Dr.

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Week 9: Capitol tours and the Summer Symposium

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

Last Monday, Ben (one of the policy interns) conducted us on a tour of the capitol.

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Week 8: A packed week

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

Looking back, I'm always amazed how much we manage to pack into each week. Last Tuesday, I ended up at Bill Nye's "The Lure of Europa" event; a talk he was giving at the Rayburn house office building, courtesy of the Planetary Society.

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Week 7: NIST Tour

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

While we visited NIST last week for an outreach event, this week we got to take a more thorough tour of the grounds and facilities.

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Week 6: A fantastic week for outreach

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

This was a fantastic week for outreach. Thursday afternoon, a few of the other interns and I headed to NIST, under Kendra's supervision, to talk to the children at the institute’s daycare about light and optics.

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Week 5: The Eggonauts

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

Work, this week, consisted primarily of writing copy for the website that we're going to be putting up to correspond with our outreach poster series, and writing a bit for the PhysicsCentral Physics Buzz blog. The highlight of last week, though, came after work on Tuesday.

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Week 4: A funny coincidence

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

After a meeting with Krystal, the APS's graphic design specialist, and the Education Manager for the AAPM (which is one floor up from us), it looks like our project for the summer is underway.

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