From Minimum Wage to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

From Minimum Wage to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Luke Edelman worked for minimum wage as a contractor and handyman. He clearly remembers the 98-degree day he was in a cramped crawl space beneath an apartment complex, clad in a thick Tyvek suit with goggles and facemask, wading through a lake of raw sewage, to fix a...
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...