American Institute of Physics

Week 7: A Long Weekend, The Fourth of July!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Simon Patane

This past week has been absolutely packed! The big thing around town last weekend was of course the Fourth of July and I was not disappointed by the celebrations! On top of all the extra things happening around here, it seemed like Vassar descended on the capital!

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Week 6: Georgetown, the Waterfront, and the Fourth of July!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Simon Patane

A shortened week with the holiday coming up on Friday! But so much to write about nonetheless. All of the interns had a wonderful time exploring more of D.C. this past weekend.

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Week 5: BBQ and Argonauts!

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Simon Patane

This past week was filled with more than a few adventurous days! Last weekend began with an outing to Jazz in the Garden outside of the National Gallery of Art. Mark and I planned on meeting up with several of the other interns, but my plans changed slightly once we arrived.

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Week 4: Lesson plans!

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Simon Patane

Last week Jake, Sine, Sharina, and I made it our mission to finish up the bulk of our research and start on the lesson plans by the start of this week. We finished up the reading as planned and, without breaking a sweat, started on the lesson plans this Monday.

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Week 3: Outreach and A Mysterious Blue Man

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Simon Patane

This past week was full of unexpected adventures! On Saturday some of the interns returned to the National Mall to check out another museum - the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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Nikki Sanford

AIP Mather Policy Intern: US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Week 8: Final Goodbyes

Friday, August 9, 2013

Fiona Muir

This week has been very busy and very bittersweet! On Monday all the interns gathered at ACP to go through our presentations and see how we could improve them before the symposium on Tuesday. It was a bit daunting but so helpful to get everyone’s advice and suggestions.

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Week 7: The Final Countdown

Friday, August 2, 2013

Fiona Muir

We’re just coming to the end of our last week of proper work, and I’m sure every other intern is saying this in their entries, but I seriously cannot believe how quickly it’s over! On Monday, we all said that we knew this week would fly by but I don’t think we knew how right we were.

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Week 6: Tours and Being a Tourist

Friday, July 26, 2013

Fiona Muir

It’s hard to believe that after today we’ve only got one full week of work left before we all leave DC and head back to school, work, or (in my case) weather that we can actually cope with.

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Week 5: Making Progress (despite the heat wave!)

Friday, July 19, 2013

Fiona Muir

Everything’s started to come together at work this week as we began to create resources and lesson plans about women in physics, based around all the information we’ve been researching over the last month.

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