Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: NIST Photoshoot and Frontiers in Optics

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

This week was a little weird for me at work. The week before was time for rapid data collection, and Monday I had to figure out how to process all of it, create the plots, and put them into an abstract for Frontiers in Optics due on Tuesday. I got it done!

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Week 9: Final Stretch!

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Justin Andre Avendaño

I cant believe its the 2nd to the last week before the whole internship ends! Things went by so fast and it feels like we just arrived in DC. Over the past week me and the interns have been exploring what we can in DC.

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Week 9: Feeling the Frisson

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

I loved going to work this week. Only 8 workdays remained, so I really tried to make the most of them, even more than usual. Some workdays that are shorter than others, usually because I’m too absorbed in what I’m working on, and I feel like I get a lot more done on those days.

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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.

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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.

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Saksham Prajapati

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.

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Week 8: The attack of the jellies

Monday, July 25, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

 

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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.

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Week 8: The attack of the jellies

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

 

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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.

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