The Photonics Academy: pipeline to the future

Dominique F. Wilson

doi:10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWD3

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics
OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2003),
paper EWD3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ETOP.2003.EWD3

The Photonics Academy: pipeline to the future

Dominique F. Wilson

Education and Training in Optics and Photonics 2003

Tucson, Arizona United States
ISBN: 1-55752-759-8

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Primary, Secondary, and Outreach Education II (EWD)

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Abstract

The Photonics Academy offers high-schoolers courses to prepare them for high-tech work in optics and photonics. Students achieve sufficient math and science proficiency to attend university or community college. Internship opportunities, tours, guest lecturers, articulated curriculum are popular program components. Enrollment is close to 200 students, 48% female and 65% Hispanic.

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