Intern Blog Postings

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.

Week 6: Airplanes, food, and Einstein

Monday, July 18, 2016

Jose Corona

Finally got to go visit a Smithsonian!

Week 6: The Launch

Monday, July 18, 2016

Isabel Binamira

Tangible evidence of progress made in this internship thus far!

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.

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.

Week Five: Terminals and Tacos

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Vanessa Espinoza

Well I’ve made it halfway! I am shocked at how fast everything is flying by. Work is busy as ever, but I feel like I’ve been learning so much. I had the opportunity to experience what goes into planning a conference this week and that was pretty cool.

Week 5: More Lesson Plans and Preparation

Monday, July 11, 2016

Simon Wright

This week has been mostly spent in preparation for the OSA workshop at the summer meeting next weekend.

Week 5: Fancy Food and Fireworks

Monday, July 11, 2016

Samantha Spytek

I have completed 5 weeks of being an SPS intern. That's 50,400 minutes or 3,024,000 seconds. This past week we made a lot of progress on our project, though it went a bit slower than we had hoped.