Intern Blog Postings

Week 2: Singing Acapella

Friday, June 14, 2013

Jamie Garrett

Time is flying by here in DC! Often I’ve thought to myself, I can’t believe I’ve only known these people for two weeks now! It’s nice that we all, the interns, get along so well. It feels like I already have great friends here. So let us begin where I left off last week…

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Week 2: The Case of the Missing IT Access

Monday, June 10, 2013

Darren McKinnon

The tail end of the second week caught me by surprise; I was the overconfident gazelle to it’s stealthy, hungry lion.

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Week 2: MOSFETs, Lasers, and MATLAB

Monday, June 10, 2013

Alexandra Day

My second week as an SPS intern was just as much fun as my first!  On Sunday we had an outreach event at Howard County Community College, where I helped out with a demonstration that played music using a laser.  I had never seen that particular demonstration before, and I had a great time learnin

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Week 2: Week of the Singing Beam

Monday, June 10, 2013

Caleb Heath

When last I left you hanging in suspense, we were set to venture forth and bring science to masses of children at the HoCo STEM Festival. Demos would be set up, experiments would be performed, diffraction glasses would be worn! A new day! A red day!

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Week 1: Any two five elevennis?

Monday, June 10, 2013

Alec Lindman

Monday the third of June was our first day at work for the summer, and everything looks quite exciting. As we’ll hopefully continue to do throughout the summer, all of us who are staying at GW walked to the metro station at 7:40, and we were at the American Center for Physics at 9 on the dot.

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Week 1: The Elephant Team

Friday, June 7, 2013

Jose "Ro" Avila

I remember the day I received the email from SPS offering me the Career Pathways internship for this summer. I was really excited, but at the same time I had no idea of what it actually meant, or what to expect from it.

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Week 1: Starting Out on Capitol Hill

Friday, June 7, 2013

Nikki Sanford

It’s hard to believe that my exciting, action-packed first week living and working in DC is finally coming to a close.  After the other interns and I met and moved into GW at Foggy Bottom last weekend, we started off the week with an Orientation at AIP.  We got to meet many of the people who help

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Week 1: "You're not that sly"

Friday, June 7, 2013

Jamie Garrett

My friend and I drove from Georgia to Washington, D.C. and arrived mid-day Saturday. Man was it hot outside! I thought, coming from the south, that it would be a nice cool spring day in Washington, but was I wrong.

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Week 1: Nobel Laureates, Astronauts, and More: My First Week as an SPS Intern

Monday, June 3, 2013

Alexandra Day

What a great first week!  Our first event was a picnic on Sunday at the house of the Director of SPS, Toni Sauncy, which was incredible.  It was great to meet everyone in person and share our goals for our summer together in DC, and the food was amazing!  Our common interest in physics and SPS ma

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Week 1: Week of the Falling Triangle

Monday, June 3, 2013

Caleb Heath

What a week of firsts: my first breath of DC air, my first day of interning, my first taste of goat. I’m tired but happy. I expect to continue enjoying myself, but I don’t expect the exhaustion to subside. There’s much work left to do. And if there were no work . . . the city calls out for exploration.

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