Jo Beck 
6/28-8/05, 2004
Internship Evaluation

	I am glad I had the opportunity to have this internship. Just spending time in SCIPP has proved valuable, where I am exposed to the equipment used and able to talk the other people who work here. I have taken measurements with silicon strip detectors and I have built, tested, and worked with scintillators. There have been several lectures that we (the interns) have attended, and these have been informational. On July 22, we helped to set up for the Tesla coil demonstration that was put on for the COSMOS students. All of this has been a very positive experience for me.
	This internship has a lot of potential, and I would encourage others to take part in it in the future, however, I would hope that there would be some modifications first. On the orientation day for the interns, our official mentor, Hartmut Sadrozinski, was not available, so Dave Dorfan took his place. Dave did not know almost anything about who we were, what our backgrounds were, or what we were supposed to be doing over the course of our internship, or at least, this is the impression he gave. We encountered this sort of attitude frequently as we started the internship also. No one really seemed to know why we were here. We did find things to do, and as the internship progressed, the organization did improve, but I don't think it was adequate.
	A more organized program with more clearly defined tasks would be a marked improvement to this program. The interns would be able to get much more work done and be more valuable to SCIPP if they were just given more tasks. Frequently, we would either be watching someone else work with equipment, or else all three of us would be working on the same project at the same time, and this was simply too many people. We would either get in each others' way or there would just not be enough work for all three of us.
	This was the first year for SCIPP to have any interns, so I suspect that, even without any effort, the quality of the internship would be better next year just because the staff would know what to expect from this summer's experience. The most important idea for me to stress is the need for organization and preparation. 
Thanks a lot for this opportunity.