Summer 2007: My SPS intern experience and working with ComPADRE

For the summer of 2007 I was enrolled in the Society of Physics Students Internship program hosted by the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland. My time at was spend working for the American Physical Society outreach department. My primary task was to expand and maintain Physicstogo.com which is part of the ComPADRE group of outreach websites funded by the National Science Foundation. More specifically, I searched for materials to add to the website, cataloged citation information, and updated the biweekly magazine portion of the website. Work experience was not the only thing gained from this internship. As a group of 8 interns we attended an event on Capitol Hill, met with members of congress, and toured nearly every monument and museum in the area. The 2007 SPS internship was an amazing opportunity and a summer memory that will remain with me for the rest of my life.