Society of Physics Students

Week 3: Week of the Virulent Culture

Friday, June 21, 2013

Caleb Heath

We are on the move!

Our second outreach event of the season, at Tuckahoe Elementary, was scheduled for Tuesday. We had been planning ways to test a few of our activities. Three forty-five minute time blocks, about forty students in each block. Christine, Jamie, and Ro were coming out to help Nicole, Toni, and I; there would be a few teachers. Nice and manageable.

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Give Counsel to the National Council

Join the conversation, influence SPS policy

Week 2: Week of the Singing Beam

Monday, June 10, 2013

Caleb Heath

When last I left you hanging in suspense, we were set to venture forth and bring science to masses of children at the HoCo STEM Festival. Demos would be set up, experiments would be performed, diffraction glasses would be worn! A new day! A red day!

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Week 1: Week of the Falling Triangle

Monday, June 3, 2013

Caleb Heath

What a week of firsts: my first breath of DC air, my first day of interning, my first taste of goat. I’m tired but happy. I expect to continue enjoying myself, but I don’t expect the exhaustion to subside. There’s much work left to do. And if there were no work . . . the city calls out for exploration.

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Retrospective: Through the Mirror Brightly

Monday, August 26, 2013

Caleb Heath

I didn't expect to go to Washington DC this summer.

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Meredith Woy

SPS SOCK (Science Outreach Catalyst Kit) Intern

Melissa Hoffman

SPS SOCK (Science Outreach Catalyst Kit) Intern

Caleb Heath

SPS SOCK (Science Outreach Catalyst Kit) Intern

Final Reflections

Friday, August 1, 2014

Mark Sellers

It blows my mind that I'm writing this reflection just two weeks after this internship. When I first started, it felt like this experience would go on for forever. Now it seems like forever ago that I was back in DC with the rest of the interns and staff at SPS.

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Week 2: Getting into the groove of things

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Mark Sellers

So, it's been a full week at SPS and things are going very well. I think I've made a good transition back into the working environment. Friday was spent on brainstorming more demonstration ideas, as well as meeting Dr. Kraig Wheeler of the American Crystallographic Association at a meeting.

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