Vortex Cannon

Build a device that releases ring shaped air vortices that are visualized using smoke to show the wonders of fluids

Cakeraters

Falling space rocks collide with the surface of planets and moons to create impact craters which can be found all over our solar system

Week 9: It’s the End of the SPS Internship as We Know It

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Terance Schuh

(And I feel fine!) Sure this summer has been great and all, but I think I’m ready to head home.

In this penultimate post I want to take the time to acknowledge some of the awesome things that came out of this internship!

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Week Nine: Published!

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Samantha Staskiewicz

My glacier bulletin is published! I am really proud of the work I've done this summer, and this article brings together everything I've learned.

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Week 8 - From One End of the Country to Another

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Isabel Bishop

SAN. DIEGO. COMIC. CON.

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Week 8: Counting Down the Days

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Jacqueline Blaum

8 weeks of the internship behind us. I’m ready to go home, but I am not ready to leave behind the wonderful people I’ve met here.

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Giavanna Jadick

There is Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Giavanna Jadick

In the Twilight Zone where policy interns thrive, the local currency is free Capitol Host sandwiches and black coffee. Didn’t RSVP? No worries! The event sponsors welcome you anyways (probably).

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Week 8: Luxurious Homelessness

Monday, July 22, 2019

Sariah Mevs Phipps

So on Monday I became homeless….not really but I did have to work in the kitchen. The 6th floor had become over crowded with people, so I had to work elsewhere. But it really isn’t bad at all!

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Suckers, Nobels, and the Sweep of History

Monday, July 22, 2019

Jeremiah O'Mahony

The editor wanted an excel sheet with every Nobel Prize winner’s name, their seminal paper, and the year that paper was published. “This looks like a job for an intern,” he chuckled.

I laughed along with the editor’s joke, wondering what poor sucker would get that job. Then I noticed everyone’s eyes on me. Hey, I thought. I’m an intern. A beat, and then: I’m the sucker.

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Week 8: The Hunt for Red Zero

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Terance Schuh

Ah zero, such a unique number. The perfect balance between positive and negative. What exactly is it though? What does it mean to have zero of something? Does it exist in nature? If we could divide by zero, then we could prove 1 = 2 (an exercise left to the reader).

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