Intern Blog Postings

Week 10: End it with a Bang!

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Justin Andre Avendaño

This week is THE WEEK! Everything I've been doing all comes together and ends now. Its been an amazing time spending the summer with SPS and all the interns and I would not have it any other way.

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Week 10 : .............

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

 Well, this is week 10. Our last blog for this internship. Can’t believe it is over now. What a summer it was! This was the best summer I have had since I came to the US. Talking about this week, it was all about preparing ourself for the final presentation.

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Ben Johnson

Week 10: Til Next Time

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week, my work at Potomac Research was mostly completed, so I focused more on finalizing my presentation.  I practiced presenting a few times for my mentors, and once they gave me the green light, I was ready to go for Friday.  They took me out to lunch at a German restaurant in Alexandria on

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Week 9: The One Where [Putin] Crosses the Line

Monday, August 1, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! For my second-to-last blog, I thought I would talk about my final presentation topic: nuclear non-proliferation.

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Week 9: Almost done!

Monday, August 1, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

This week, I pulled numbers from the giant legislation released: The Manchin-Schumer Reconciliation bill and the Appropriations bill. These two bills had a lot of relevant science policy budget figures.

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Week 9: the final countdown...

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Nicole Leung

This week, I redesigned the star camera mount again! I updated the dummy camera model in Solidworks to reflect the actual size of the camera, and added a part to represent the lens holder.

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Week 9: Fruitful Week

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

Almost end of our internship. My work at my internship was almost done as well. All I had left was some documentation. While I was writing all of those down, I realized I could make the program even easier for other people and therefore I updated my script.

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Week 9: Published at Last, Thrifting, Black Bird and Discovery

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Gizem Dogan

My first Physics Today story is now published!

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Ben Johnson

Week 9: Winding Down

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week at work I continued my efforts from last week to implement a hybrid reservoir computing scheme.  I added a function which passes Euler integration steps into the reservoir in addition to the previous states and input signal when the system is in feedback mode.  This serves as an additio

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