AmeriCOM Announces Expanded Board

AmeriCOM Announces Expanded Board

AmeriCOM is excited to introduce seven new board members to help drive our three-pronged mission of creating workforce training programs, developing optics manufacturing technologies, and transitioning those technologies from research into operations. The leaders...
Graduates Land at Top-Notch Companies

Graduates Land at Top-Notch Companies

Whether they are starting a full-time job at a local optics manufacturing company, gaining experience at an internship with Lockheed Martin, or pursuing additional education, this past spring’s cohort of college optics graduates are moving on to impressive...
Optics and Photonics Summer Intensive Course

Optics and Photonics Summer Intensive Course

It’s not your typical summer vacation, and these aren’t your typical high schoolers. Fourteen students from Boulder Prep High School in Colorado completed an intensive and immersive summer course learning about optics and photonics. The four-day program included...
Teachers’ Workshop for Optics Careers

Teachers’ Workshop for Optics Careers

High school students may be on summer vacation but many science teachers were back in the classroom this month learning how to teach optics. Sussex County Community College (SCCC) hosted the Careers in Optics Technology Professional Development Workshop in...
Navy Veteran Helps Make Lenses for Equipment Used in Military

Navy Veteran Helps Make Lenses for Equipment Used in Military

Enrique ‘Ricky’ Gomez joined the United States Navy in 2009, which helped him pay for college where he studied engineering. He enjoyed his time in the military, serving active duty for four years before enrolling in an associate degree program in...