Intern Blog Postings

Week 6: Welcome to Sacramento, and the OSA Workshop

Monday, July 18, 2016

Simon Wright

I am currently in sunny (hot) Sacramento, California! I flew out on Friday and arrived at my hotel in that evening, exhausted but happy to be here. (Why is it that flying is so exhausting?

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Week 6: Visits from Home

Monday, July 18, 2016

Victoria DiTomasso

NYC came to DC this week! In between reviewing teaching guides, I spent time with my parents and three friends from home.

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Week 6: Planes, Spacetime, and a Push to the End

Monday, July 18, 2016

Samantha Spytek

I have completed my sixth week as an SPS intern. That's 60,480 minutes or 3,628,800 seconds. Aaaaaand, we're done! We're done we're done we're done! Our group has finished going through all of the the previous lesson plans, dotting all of the i's and crossing all of the t's.

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Week 6: Pokemon and BBQ

Monday, July 18, 2016

Marissa Murray

I started last week off by sending out my very first FYI!

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Week 6: What happens when electrons lose their energy?

Monday, July 18, 2016

Tabitha Colter

They get Bohr’ed.

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Week 6: Did you know what a Post-Doc was?

Monday, July 18, 2016

Dahlia Baker

This past week has been a continued grind towards the end goal of my project: to make and test a sample of our infrared absorbing material.

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Week 6: Airplanes, food, and Einstein

Monday, July 18, 2016

Jose Corona

Finally got to go visit a Smithsonian!

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Week 6: The Launch

Monday, July 18, 2016

Isabel Binamira

Tangible evidence of progress made in this internship thus far!

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Week Six: Eggs and Einstein

Monday, July 18, 2016

Vanessa Espinoza

This week was kind of a weird week because it felt shorter than usual. Work, as always, seemed to fly by. I am kind of worried because I feel like there’s so much I want to do, but not enough hours in the day. I have started a new project and that is very exciting.

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Week 5: NASA Tours and New Networks

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Dahlia Baker

This past week has brought a lot of realizations and progress in my work, as well as more opportunities to learn about NASA and meet other people in STEM.

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