Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: Talks, Jellyfish, The Wharf, and Data

Friday, July 29, 2022

Taylor Overcast

It is wild to think that we only have one week left. This summer has flown by and, while I am excited to return to my university, I wish that I could somehow do both.

Week 9: Lunch and Learns!

Friday, July 29, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This week we had two Lunch and Learns! The first was with Dr. Renee Horton from NASA. Dr. Renee is an inspiring scientist who has worked at NASA for 13 years, has a kids book series called Dr.

Week 8: Danger Aborted

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

So, there was some change of plans with our matching project. I had to update my coding to match this new idea and that’s all I did for this week’s work. After that, I have been working on the documentation of those programs and will continue working for the upcoming week.

Week 8: The attack of the jellies

Monday, July 25, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

Week 8: The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion

Monday, July 25, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! This week, I’m going to talk about constituent letters. When we get a correspondence from a constituent, be it phone call, email, fax, letter, or smoke signal, it is the policy of our office to respond to it. We get about 1500 incoming correspondence each week.

Week 8: The attack of the jellies

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

Week 8: Visit to Space Telescope Science Institute

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week I was able to make my first visit to the Space Telescope Science Institute building. It was on the John Hopkins campus pushed into the back. It was a beautiful campus with an amazing building. I got to see the control room that JWST was operated from.

Week 8: Switches and Glitches

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Taylor Colaizzi

This week, Dr. Charles and I installed GNU Radio onto the laboratory computer to see if we can use the software-defined radio in conjunction with a physical experiment. We haven't yet gotten around to testing out a live experiment, but we are very close!