Intern Blog Postings

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Maria McQuillan

This week I continued working on analyzing and understanding periodic density structures in the solar wind, now more specifically in pseudo-streamers. A pseudo-streamer is a stream of solar wind that does not have an electric current.

Week 4: Determined Tourist Adventure, Check

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Demitri Call

This week brought back a bit of much needed respite from the hectic work weeks previously. With congress on recess I was able to relax a bit and give my suits a break for a week. The pace change took some getting used to.

Week 4: Night at the Museum

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Mariah Heinzerling

This week has been a flurry of meeting people and making sense of the technical side of the business case I am presenting at the end of the summer. I met a few of the people in charge of developing AIP's business case template.

Week 4: Making Progress

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Victoria DiTomasso

A week of progress, in more ways than one.

Week 4: The First Scientist Rediscovered

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Samantha Spytek

I have completed four weeks as an AIP intern. That's 2,419,200 seconds, or 40,320 minutes. This past week was very successful for our group, as we finished going through all of the lesson plans together.

Week 4: Projectile Duck Motion, Amongst Other Things

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Isabel Binamira

A busy week at the office and a packed Fourth of July weekend.

Week 4: Preparing for the Summer Meeting

Monday, July 4, 2016

Simon Wright

It has been another exciting week for this SPS intern. On Monday, Rebecca and I went to UMD at Shady Grove to share some of our lesson plans with in-service STEM teachers that are in a Masters course on STEM education.

Week 3: Workshops and Lesson Plans

Monday, June 27, 2016

Simon Wright

This week has been quite as packed as the last. On Tuesday, I went to a 100K in 10 Solutions Lab where we discussed how to incorporate the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into a successful curriculum for STEM teachers.