Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: Our Last Week Together – but two more weeks for me!

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Benjamin Preis

This week was the last week for all of the interns but me. We tried our best to do things together every night, which was a great way to say goodbye. I really do feel as if I have made some friends with the other interns this summer.

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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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Final Reflections: An amazing summer

Friday, August 1, 2014

Simon Patane

Wow! What an amazing summer. I'm back home in Buffalo now and I still can't believe my time in D.C. has come to an end. The journey home and the past week or so have been a mix of melancholy and joy.

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Final Reflections: Opportunities I couldn’t have imagined

Friday, August 1, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

This internship has offered me opportunities I couldn’t have imagined before the start of the summer. From climbing inside a cutting-edge spacecraft to seeing Bill Nye in person, the memories we packed into our days here have made the past two months a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. Well, twice if you’re lucky like Caleb.

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Final Reflections: Looking Back on it ALL

Friday, August 1, 2014

Benjamin Perez

As I return to the school year routine, I think back to the wonderful memories I had this summer. I couldn’t imagine doing anything better with my time. The SPS internship program was truly amazing and opened my eyes to the possibilities a person has graduating with a physics major.

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Final Reflections

Friday, August 1, 2014

Kelby Peterson

Back home now after my crazy, wonderful summer. I came home and jumped right back into things, moved back to school, got my apartment settled, caught up on my missed rock climbing and mountain biking this summer, and have started back in on my research projects at home.

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Final Reflections: Conclusions

Friday, August 1, 2014

Nick Durofchalk

Week 10 was bittersweet. After the Final Presentations the week before, most of the week was spent preparing our entry for NASA Goddard's Intern Poster Session.

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Final Reflections

Friday, August 1, 2014

Kirsten Randle

My last week at Goddard and AIP was a very good review of what I'd done all summer. I reviewed my slides and my work (also in Latex) in order to create a poster for the NASA intern poster session. My project was very well suited to my skills and the time period allotted.

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Week 9: Pentagon and Final Presentations

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Kearns Louis-Jean

This week was just about all dedicated to preparing for the final presentations for the intern symposium. Monday morning all of the interns went on a tour of the Pentagon. I thought it was really interesting. We had a great tour guide who was very enthusiastic and informative.

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Week 9: Capitol tours and the Summer Symposium

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Stephen Skolnick

Last Monday, Ben (one of the policy interns) conducted us on a tour of the capitol.

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