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Week 8: Tours, Presentations, and Work galore!

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Benjamin Preis

This was quite a week! Monday began early: a 7:15am arrival to the Pentagon, for our 8am tour. Since our group was so large, we had a tour guide all to ourselves. He was very impressive, and inspired me to walk backwards on all tours that I now give.

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Week 9: The Final Countdown (na na na na)

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Jacob Zalkind

The Final Countdown (na na na na)

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Week 8: Last Week of Teacher Institute and NASA

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Kearns Louis-Jean

I have mixed emotions about this week. It has been a very fun-filled week. It has also been a sad week because it was the last week of the middle school science teachers summer institute. I have developed a strong relationship with the teachers and I am sad to see them go.

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Week 8: A packed week

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

Looking back, I'm always amazed how much we manage to pack into each week. Last Tuesday, I ended up at Bill Nye's "The Lure of Europa" event; a talk he was giving at the Rayburn house office building, courtesy of the Planetary Society.

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Week 8: A Week of Water, Air and Space

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Kelby Peterson

This weekend was a blast. Saturday was a day spent by the Georgetown waterfront. For most of the day we rented kayaks and went around the Potomac River. We explored a little 'island' we found, and I got sufficiently sun-burnt (even though I put on sunscreen).

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Week 8: An Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Caleb L. Heath

This has been a big week for me personally. After years of training, and months of back-breaking, nerve-wracking searching, I have a teaching job. I am the newest math teacher at Van Buren High School in Van Buren Arkansas.

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Week 8: Whirlwind week of outreach and stuff!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Mark Sellers

I took the 12th of July pretty slow; slept in, made a big breakfast, and didn't leave the apartment until about 1pm. I headed out to the International Spy Museum, which was quite fun!

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Week 8: Making a PowerPoint and NASA

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Benjamin Perez

My research started to wind down even more this week. While Arvind was at a conference in Italy, he gave me the goal to finish the simulations I am running and start preparing a presentation to show him come Monday.

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Week 8: Whirlwind

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Ashley Finger

I mentioned last week that the events on my calendar looking forward were extremely exciting, but even so, I was not aware of the whirlwind in which I was about to be swept up.

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Week 8: Jamboree!

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Kirsten Randle

As my project is nearing its conclusion, corners are being straightened, wrinkles ironed out. Tuesday night, the interns gathered at the Aviation Museum in College Park for a dinner with our mentors and sponsors, including Dr.

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