Intern Blog Postings

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

This week, I continued to summarize bills, wrote my first bulletin draft, and attended ICSSI, or the International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

My second week has come to a close and I am surprised by how many things I got to do this week. To begin with my work at NIST, I spent much of my week doing safety training before I begin in the lab.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

From this week, my work started as well as my 6 weeks summer classes, anthropology and psychology. I still need to fulfil some general education requirement, so I decided to take those this summer online.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

This week has been a blur for me, but in the best of ways. I feel like I am just getting started, even though we are already 20% of the way through the internship. I have to constantly remind myself to make the most of this fleeting summer.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Taylor Colaizzi

It's the second week of our internship. Here are some FAST THOUGHTS!

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Taylor Overcast

The first week of the internship passed quickly; however, somehow the second week flew by even faster.

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Justin Andre Avendaño

This week was jam-packed with so many things I cant begin to explain how much fun I had!

Friday, June 10, 2022

Lucy Corthell

The first full week at work went by fast. It’s only the second week and I feel like I’m getting into the swing of things: I have a grip on my project at work and I have begun to explore activities, museums, concerts and such in DC. 

Ben Johnson

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

My first week in Washington was filled with exploration and education.  The first day I moved in, got settled, and checked out the area surrounding the dorm.  The second was Memorial Day, and I met some of the other interns for the first time, then we headed down to the parade at the mall as a gr

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

Today is Sunday, June 5 th , 2022, and it marks the first full week of my participation in the SPS Summer Internship, working at NIST. Last Sunday I drove to Washington DC from Bloomington, Illinois, where I recently acquired a BA in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University.

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