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Sunday, August 7, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

This week, our last week, was both exciting and emotional. I spent most of work finishing up bill summaries and practicing my presentation again and again and again. I also listened to others give their presentations and we all gave each other constructive criticism.

Week 10: Gratitude, Goodbyes, and Getting Struck by Lightning

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Emma Goulet

I am writing this blog post in a very different place from all of my other editions— from my home in Massachusetts. It feels almost as though the internship never happened being back here— it was an abrupt change back to my previous life as if I never lived in DC, and it feels odd.

Week 10: It’s not the end, it’s see you later

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Lucy Corthell

The last week flew by. Between finishing up projects, spending time with friends, practicing final presentations, packing, and trying to sleep between all of the other things it has been hectic!

Week 9: Almost done!

Monday, August 1, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

This week, I pulled numbers from the giant legislation released: The Manchin-Schumer Reconciliation bill and the Appropriations bill. These two bills had a lot of relevant science policy budget figures.

Week 9: The One Where [Putin] Crosses the Line

Monday, August 1, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! For my second-to-last blog, I thought I would talk about my final presentation topic: nuclear non-proliferation.

Week 9: Winding Down

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week at work I continued my efforts from last week to implement a hybrid reservoir computing scheme. I added a function which passes Euler integration steps into the reservoir in addition to the previous states and input signal when the system is in feedback mode. This serves as an additio

Week 9: The Bathtub Heist

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Janessa Slone

Second to last blog post.

On Monday, the SPS Interns met over zoom with Dr. Renee Horton. She has an amazing and motivational bright spirit and had great advice for all of us. I am super excited to meet her in person at Physcon later this year.

Week 9: Almost Done

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week was spent finalizing research and preparing for the presentations next week. I finished putting together another set of tables this week and now only need to do two more tables. Spent time putting my slides together which is taking more time than I thought it would.

Week 9: NIST Photoshoot and Frontiers in Optics

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

This week was a little weird for me at work. The week before was time for rapid data collection, and Monday I had to figure out how to process all of it, create the plots, and put them into an abstract for Frontiers in Optics due on Tuesday. I got it done!

Week 9: Final Stretch!

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Justin Andre Avendaño

I cant believe its the 2nd to the last week before the whole internship ends! Things went by so fast and it feels like we just arrived in DC. Over the past week me and the interns have been exploring what we can in DC.

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