My name is Samantha Spytek. I’m a junior level physics major in the University Honors program with minors in math, astronomy and art history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (or just Virginia Tech). I’m also going to be a first year graduate student next year in an Accelerated Masters Program in Science Education. I’ll be spending a fifth year at Virginia Tech to complete the MAED and become certified as a high school physics teacher. I have experience being a TA for foundation physics courses at my university, and last summer I taught Astrophysics at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Obviously I like physics a lot, but I also have other interests and talents. I am fluent in Spanish (I spent 12 years in a Spanish Immersion Program). I am an artist. I work in several mediums including drawing in pencil and charcoal, photography (both digital and film), and stone sculpting. I enjoy history in general, but I particularly like art history and the history of knowledge and technology. I was born and raised in Arlington, VA, just across the river from DC. While the area is nothing new to me, I absolutely love the district. I look forward to sharing my city with the other interns while getting to work in the Niels Bohr Library & Archives.