Intern Blog Postings

Week 7: Astro-tastic!

Monday, July 25, 2016

Marissa Murray

Monday and Tuesday were spent working on and finishing up my FYI about the new basic energy research and NIST legislation.

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Week seven: NIST Tour

Monday, July 25, 2016

Maria McQuillan

This week at NASA was another busy week. I can’t believe the poster session is already less than two weeks away. This week I worked with my mentor to continue to analyze the solar wind and analyze the interaction of solar wind and mercury.

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Week 7: Visits to AAS and NIST

Monday, July 25, 2016

Victoria DiTomasso

This week we got teach and learn at an outreach event, AAS and NIST.

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Week 7: Baby Birds, Making Cheese and Setting Standards

Monday, July 25, 2016

Samantha Spytek

I have completed the seventh week of my internship. That means I've spent 70,560 minutes or 4,233,600 seconds as an SPS intern. This week held many adventures. The first was our meeting with AAS on Wednesday.

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Week 7: What did the nuclear physicist have for lunch?

Monday, July 25, 2016

Tabitha Colter

Fission chips.

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Week 7: AAPT Summer Meeting + A Visit to NIST

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Simon Wright

What a week. Where do I begin?

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Week Six: Some Love for Pluto

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Maria McQuillan

This week at work was all about optimization and organization. I spent a good portion of my work week writing up programs to improve my work efficiency. Some of my programs used to take upwards of 3 hours to run just due to the amount of data that was needed for each process.

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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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