American Physical Society

Week 9: Lunch and Learns!

Friday, July 29, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This week we had two Lunch and Learns! The first was with Dr. Renee Horton from NASA. Dr. Renee is an inspiring scientist who has worked at NASA for 13 years, has a kids book series called Dr.

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Saksham Prajapati

Week 8: Danger Aborted

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

So, there was some change of plans with our matching project. I had to update my coding to match this new idea and that’s all I did for this week’s work. After that, I have been working on the documentation of those programs and will continue working for the upcoming week.

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Week 8: Touring NIST!

Friday, July 22, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This Thursday, most of the interns got to tour the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)!

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Week 7: Deck on the Desk

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week I tested my program with our last year’s physicists and teachers data. I had to edit/add some columns to match our newly designed signup form. The program was working nicely. will be meeting with my supervisor next and see if I need to add something more for the final program.

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Week 7: Group lunch hosted by the AIP Foundation team!

Friday, July 15, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This week my mentor and I got the code running which means I now have a large excel sheet of all the data I need! I manually checked 5 colleges/universities and it seems to have all the correct information.

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Week 6: Filled with Colors

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week started with a bang of colors. Monday was the 4th of July, America’s Independence Day. In the morning we went around Washington monument to watch the parade. Then we went for a quick lunch at Duke’s. Later around 6-6:30 we left GWU for the Washington monument one more time.

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Week 6: Pupusas and continued work

Friday, July 8, 2022

Lucy Corthell

 

The end of this internship is looming too close for comfort. This week besides continuing what I have been working on, I have been working on the intro to my final project and planning out a schedule for how to get everything done. 

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Week 5: Food&Drink-Crawling

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week started with a beautiful potluck evening on Tuesday. I made chicken chili (sweet-chili). There were different foods from each room. I am never used to trying new foods but this time it felt right. All the foods were delicious. Enjoyed every single food. 

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Week 5: Halfway

Friday, July 1, 2022

Lucy Corthell

Happy July! This week seemed to go by very quickly and I am realizing how short summer and this internship really is. 

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Week 4: A great week featuring an Orchestra Concert and Astronomy on the Mall!

Monday, June 27, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This past Saturday we went to the most spectacular orchestra concert held by the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F) at the University of Maryland.

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