Intern Blog Postings

Final Reflections: First-hand science policy experience

Friday, August 9, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

This summer was a good experience for me. I knew there was a lot to the field of science policy, and I knew that my public policy master coursework would be useful. However, nothing beats first-hand experience working on science policy.

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Week 8: Final Goodbyes

Friday, August 9, 2013

Fiona Muir

This week has been very busy and very bittersweet! On Monday all the interns gathered at ACP to go through our presentations and see how we could improve them before the symposium on Tuesday. It was a bit daunting but so helpful to get everyone’s advice and suggestions.

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Week 10: A lot of emotions!

Friday, August 9, 2013

Jose "Ro" Avila

And just as I expected, this last week totally flew by. On Sunday my brother came to town to spend the last 4 days of my internship with me, and so he had to see our final presentations.

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Week 10: Best Summer Ever

Friday, August 9, 2013

Jamie Garrett

Museums, shopping, boat rides, walking, and a lot of food. I have had the best summer in DC working with SPS and exploring the city.

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Week 9: End of a Great Summer Internship

Friday, August 9, 2013

Katherine Stankus

The beginning portion of this week was dedicated to wrapping up my internship experience with the Society of Physics Students (SPS) at the American Center of Physics (ACP).

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Final Reflections: Furthering my career interests

Friday, August 9, 2013

Katherine Stankus

This summer internship with the Society of Physics Students has been a wonderful experience. As a Mather Public Policy Intern, I not only learned how science policy is conducted at the national level but also furthered my career interests.

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Week 9: The End to a Great Summer

Friday, August 9, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

Our last week was a blur of presentations and final evaluations. We had a day to practice and finalize our presentations for the SPS Intern Symposium.

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Week 9: Fat and Poor

Friday, August 9, 2013

Nicole Quist

Saturday night was really fun because I went out to my friend Julie’s house to go to a party. It was a glow-in-the dark paint dance party out on a farm in Virginia. It was a lot of fun, but we grew tired of it quickly, so we went cosmic bowling afterword because we glowed.

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Final Reflections: An enlightening experience

Friday, August 9, 2013

Dayton Syme

It is very sad for me to say that the end of my internship has drawn to a close. I left on Wednesday to fly to Idaho where I proceeded to start a 4 day road trip with my dad all the way to Florida for my facilities training in grad school. On one hand it was sad that I had to leave.

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Week 10: Preparations, Presentations, and Packing: My Final Week as an SPS Intern

Friday, August 9, 2013

Alexandra Day

My final week was full of activities and it was lots of fun!  On Monday, I went to NIST for a few hours to get some final words of advice from my mentor about my presentation.  Afterwards, I traveled to ACP for a great lunch with Fred Dylla, the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institut

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