Intern Blog Postings

Final Reflections: An enlightening experience

Friday, August 9, 2013

Dayton Syme

It is very sad for me to say that the end of my internship has drawn to a close. I left on Wednesday to fly to Idaho where I proceeded to start a 4 day road trip with my dad all the way to Florida for my facilities training in grad school. On one hand it was sad that I had to leave.

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Week 10: Preparations, Presentations, and Packing: My Final Week as an SPS Intern

Friday, August 9, 2013

Alexandra Day

My final week was full of activities and it was lots of fun!  On Monday, I went to NIST for a few hours to get some final words of advice from my mentor about my presentation.  Afterwards, I traveled to ACP for a great lunch with Fred Dylla, the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institut

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Week 10: Farewell DC

Friday, August 9, 2013

Darren McKinnon

The final week was busy; it was packed to the brim with events. This meant that there wouldn’t be a lot of time to go off and do whatever we wanted, so our final weekend was spent wrapping up all of the museums and sightseeing that we wanted to do.

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Final Reflections: A great impact on my future plans

Friday, August 9, 2013

Nikki Sanford

Starting Law School

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Week 10: Week of the Parthian Shot

Friday, August 9, 2013

Caleb Heath

Despite the title, I have nothing barbed to say about this week, except to wish that someone would hurry up and invent practical transporters. I would have saved considerable time at the airport. More importantly, I could come back at will.

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Final Reflections: A great experience

Friday, August 9, 2013

Fiona Muir

Now that I’m back in London and getting stuck in to my classes for this term, the excitement of DC seems a million miles away. Talking to all my friends about what they’ve been doing this summer, I do feel like I’m bragging a bit when I describe what a great experience I had.

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Final Reflections: First-hand science policy experience

Friday, August 9, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

This summer was a good experience for me. I knew there was a lot to the field of science policy, and I knew that my public policy master coursework would be useful. However, nothing beats first-hand experience working on science policy.

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Week 8: Preparing for Presentations

Friday, August 2, 2013

Alec Lindman

As we approach the conclusion of our work this summer, Darren and I, the two NASA interns, will be presenting our work on August 1st at the center-wide intern poster session at Goddard.

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Week 9: The End...But Not Really

Friday, August 2, 2013

Jamie Garrett

This past weekend I went to the Air and Space Museum Extension in Chantilly, VA.

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Week 8: Last Week Working Capitol Hill

Friday, August 2, 2013

Katherine Stankus

Not only was this week the last week for Nikki and I working at the Science Committee but it was also the last week before Congress goes into its’ August Recess. Therefore, there was quite a bit of work that had to be done.

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