Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: August Already?

Friday, August 2, 2013

Alexandra Day

I can’t believe it’s August! This summer has absolutely flown by. I’m busy wrapping up my project at NIST and preparing for my presentation next week at ACP.

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Week 9: Becoming the Expert

Friday, August 2, 2013

Darren McKinnon

This week was all about finishing up the poster for my presentation. My mentor has been in Canada, and so he was hard to reach. Fortunately the rest of the group, namely Tom and Mike, were able to help me along the way. By Tuesday I had finished the first draft of the poster.

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Week 9: Week of the Last Hurrah

Friday, August 2, 2013

Caleb Heath

It’s been sitting on my shelf for months now, that little wind-up wonder with the AIP logo on its rotating breast. It hasn’t moved since I played with it the first Monday morning at the office. The office . . . that’s how I think of it now. And home . . .

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Week 6: Tours and Being a Tourist

Friday, July 26, 2013

Fiona Muir

It’s hard to believe that after today we’ve only got one full week of work left before we all leave DC and head back to school, work, or (in my case) weather that we can actually cope with.

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Week 8: No breaks this time

Friday, July 26, 2013

Jose "Ro" Avila

This week has been full of activities. As the internship comes to a close, we have to start thinking and working on our final presentation, finish documents, and organize things, such as tours. On Friday, we went to the NIST tour, which was very interesting.

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Week 8: NASA on the Hill & SPS Intern Capitol Tour

Friday, July 26, 2013

Nikki Sanford

Even though my internship with the Science Committee is winding down, the action and work in the office hasn’t slowed.  In addition to two hearings (one on EPA’s Hydraulic Fracturing Investigation and the other on the Future of Coal) I had the opportunity to experience a NASA on the Hill receptio

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Week 7: Counting 602000000000000000000000 Atoms

Friday, July 26, 2013

Alec Lindman

On Friday we toured NIST with Alexandra and Dr. John Suehle, her mentor. We visited so many labs that I’ve probably lost track of a few, but these are the highlights. Our first stop was in the electron microscopy suite – though the star of the show wasn’t even an SEM.

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Week 8: Weak Ate

Friday, July 26, 2013

Jamie Garrett

The beginning of this week I started working on preliminary drawings for the Angular Momentum and Rotation. I have to send them to the Art Director at APS to have them professional drawn up for my activities.

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Week 7: An Environment and Energy Hearing, NASA on the Hill, and the SPS Capitol Tour

Friday, July 26, 2013

Katherine Stankus

The beginning of the week was dedicated to preparing materials for the upcoming hearings on Wednesday and Thursday. As the point-intern for Wednesday’s Joint Environment and Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, Lessons Learned: EPA’s Investigations of Hydraulic Fracturing,

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Week 7: Portland!

Friday, July 26, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

This week was the much-anticipated AAPT Summer Meeting in Portland.  I spent most of Saturday sitting in airports and on airplanes (I had a nice long layover in Houston).  Luckily, I remembered to load my iPod with some TV shows, so the trip wasn’t too boring.  As we landed in Portland, we got a

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