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Patrick Mangan

Week 7: NASA, Etc.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Patrick Mangan

Hello,

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Week 5: What a Wonderful Week!

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Shauna LeFebvre

This past week was wonderful!  Monday was my first day working with the middle school teachers.  We started with introductions and ice-breakers, followed by an overview of the work done at NIST.  Then we had a tour of NIST’s museum.  This was amazing because we got to some of the standards that u

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Week 7: La Cumpleañera

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Veronica Martinez-Vargas

Saturday, I was with family and friends all day back in Salisbury. We had a nice cookout at my brother's house. Of course,the food was delicious!

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Week 7 : America’s Next Top Protein Sensor !

Friday, July 10, 2015

Teresa Turmanian

Welcome to Round 2: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)!

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Hannah Pell

Week 7: NASA, Capitol Hill, NIST… and 21!

Friday, July 10, 2015

Hannah Pell

This week was quite hectic; I barely had any time in the office. Tuesday was quite an exciting day because we toured the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center… and I turned 21! We started off the tour visiting Max’s lab and meeting his mentor. Their project is really interesting. We saw the machinery they use in the detector lab and some samples of detectors they had already engineered. After that, we had another visit with Dr. John Mather who came to talk about what he has been working on lately and was exceptionally curious about what we’re all up to as well.

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Connor Day

Week 7: Happy 'Merica Day

Friday, July 10, 2015

Connor Day

Before I even arrived to Washington, I was excited about celebrating the 4th of July here. I spent the holiday morning visiting with a good friend and former coworker from Atlanta who was up for the weekend. We enjoyed brunch at Eatonville on 14th Street and a bit of shopping. Afterwards, I headed out to RedRocks on H Street with a couple of the interns and our friends to spend the evening. The entire day was cloudy and rainy, but we were still able to see fireworks from all over town from the rooftop of the bar. On our way home, we managed to run into some people setting some off in the middle of the street. 'Merica.

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Week 7: Fireworks - On the Lawn and in the Committee Room

Friday, July 10, 2015

Drew Roberts

Fourth of July weekend led to some of the most interesting experiences of the summer.  A group of friends from UNC came to visit, so we saw many of the usual sites in the city: Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, National Zoo, and various museums.  This is always fun, but not the most unique e

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Rachel Odessey

Week 6: What the Other Interns Are Doing

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Rachel Odessey

I took a well-needed break from DC at the start of the week to catch up with friends from high school before diving back into work for the week; I finally got to see the new Pixar movie (and as with any good Pixar movie, cried my eyes out). On Monday, all of us SPS interns got to take a tour of the American Center for Physics, where Connor, Shauna, Hannah, Patrick, Aman, and Brean have been working and they told us all about their projects.

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Max Torke

Week 6: Day Trip to Philadelphia

Monday, July 6, 2015

Max Torke

On Saturday, several of the interns and I went to Philadelphia for the day.  We started with a walk through Drexel University campus on our way to downtown Philadelphia.  Our first stop was the Chemical Heritage Museum.  The museum was filled with the most influential scientific instruments throu

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Week 6: "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."-Albert Einstein

Monday, July 6, 2015

Veronica Martinez-Vargas

I went to the American Center for Physics (ACP) tour hosted by Shauna, Hannah, Brean, Connor, Patrick, and Aman on Monday.

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