Intern Blog Postings

Week 7: NIST Tour Success

Friday, July 19, 2013

Alexandra Day

My major accomplishment for this week was successfully hosting a tour of NIST for everyone on Friday. I’ve been planning the tour for about a month now, and I’m pleased with the way it turned out.

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Week 7: Abstract Thinking

Friday, July 19, 2013

Darren McKinnon

The beginning of this week was set to be a sad one of sorts. My mentor was departing for Canada, and he would not return before my time at Goddard had ended. However, once I had checked my email Monday morning, I found that there was no time to waste.

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Week 7: Week of the Screaming Propagation

Friday, July 19, 2013

Caleb Heath

It is now redundant to say that this has been a busy week. All weeks henceforth (that is, the next two and half) will be busy as we work hard to finish our projects. When we are not working, we shall be touring.

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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 6: In a Contemplative Fashion, and a Tranquil Frame of Mind

Friday, July 12, 2013

Jamie Garrett

My new topics for the PhysicsQuest project are proving more difficult than the previous. I am working on rotation and angular momentum in relation to quantum physics.

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Week 5: Hearings & Markups

Friday, July 12, 2013

Katherine Stankus

Representative Kilmer and I. This week has been the busiest week so far.

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Week 5: Short Week, short post

Friday, July 12, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

Last week, I finalized the presentation I will give at the AAPT Summer Meeting next weekend to the Executive Board and Section Representatives. We want to let them know about the work I’m doing and encourage members to pursue advocacy, so my talk focuses on what resources I am creating.

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Week 5: Georgia Bound

Friday, July 12, 2013

Nicole Quist

Saturday we went to the Folklife festival put on by the Smithsonian. They had booth set up about the Americas, fashion, as well as a bunch of booths for Hungry. It was fun walking around and seeing all the displays. They also had food, so we got some Chicken and Waffles and fresh fruit.

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Week 6: NASA Trip!

Friday, July 12, 2013

Alexandra Day

The highlight of this week was our trip to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Week 6: Tour de Goddard

Friday, July 12, 2013

Darren McKinnon

Following the fun of the 4th, it was back to work on Monday. Most of the week was taken up with familiarizing myself with writing scripts in Linux and working my way through the modeling code that we would be utilizing.

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