Colorado School of Mines

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Alex Mikulich

I have just finished up my sixth week, where I managed to snag a lab at my university to work in for the summer. I reached out to a member of my university's Environment, Health and Safety office and they managed to get me my own workspace in the basement of one of their buildings.

Further testing into the coffee stain effect

Monday, July 6, 2020

Alex Mikulich

Shorter blog post this time. It is hard to believe this has been my fifth week of interning at NASA! I have had a great time so far with all of my other interns, and my tests have been going well.

Week 4: Working with chemicals

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Alex Mikulich

This week has been pretty exciting, I have moved on from working with salt water and salt propanol to working with rhodamine-6G. When I ordered it off the internet, it came with a safety sheet that recommended a fume hood and a formal laboratory, but all I have is a garage and work table.

If there's something you don't know, literally just ask.

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Madison Swirtz

Since I had officially finished up the activities that were supposed to take me the rest of the summer, the APS Programs department gave me the opportunity to try some new things.

Week 3: Research with propanol

Monday, June 22, 2020

Alex Mikulich

My third week of the internship is proving eventful. I have done more testing with my airbrush, including applying isopropyl alcohol instead of water as a solvent for salt.

For anyone who is interested in what my job actually is

Monday, June 22, 2020

Madison Swirtz

Although my blogs the first two weeks were not very insightful, I do actually have a real job at APS. My job for the summer was to update the APS Top Educators lists and Physics Graphs & Statistics. All in all, lots of working in Excel.

Week 2: More experimentation!

Monday, June 15, 2020

Alex Mikulich

My second week has gone well! I have met more with my mentor, Dr. Southard, and also with Dr. Xiang Li, another researcher at Goddard. They took a look at my earlier experiment and made some suggestions to improve it.

What I learned during the STEM Shutdown

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Madison Swirtz

The first resource I looked into was ParticlesForJustice.org. The call to action on the front page is worth reading in its entirety, and I took my call to action as the following quote:

Week 1: Starting my experiments!

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Alex Mikulich

I can confidently say that I am going to enjoy my summer with NASA! So far, I have attended several orientations with all types of interns, including both from NASA and from SPS.

I have become comfortably numb

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Madison Swirtz

My first warning sign was in the first sentence of the instructions: “This is something that should be avoided at all costs due to the amount of time it requires.” The steps were pretty simple, click about 20 buttons to specify the degree level and majors that apply to STEM, then choose

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