Tanya Fontaine, Matt Bradnan, Derek Tourangeau and Ken Mather attended the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego. (right) The group shows off the medal they won at the Outreach Olympics.
THREE RIVERS SPIE CHAPTER WINS SILVER IN "OUTREACH OLYMPICS"
Competition held at SPIE's annual conference in San Diego
Students from Three Rivers Community College's SPIE Student Chapter took second place in the "Outreach Olympics" held this year at the SPIE annual conference, Optics and Photonics 2010 , held in San Diego in August. The event was organized to allow student chapters from around the world to demonstrate the optics/photonics activities they use in outreach to K12 students. Three Rivers students' winning entry was "Polarized Light Art", creating colorful designs using clear, colorless cellophane shapes and polarized light. About a dozen chapters competed and, except for the TRCC chapter, all were from four year universities.
The Three Rivers students also attended a day-long Leadership Workshop as well as other events sponsored by SPIE for their student members. Four students, all from the TRCC Laser and Fiber Optic Technology AS Degree program, received travel funding for the week-long event through grants from SPIE, The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, and Three Rivers. Three Rivers senior LFOT student Derek Tourangeau also presented a paper at one of the conference sessions, "Stories from Laser Camp: Outreach Activities for Kids".
SPIE is an international society advancing light-based research. TRCC has had a student chapter since 1998 and this is the sixth year that TRCC students have attended the conference in San Diego.
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Tanya Fontaine, Matt Bradnan, Derek Tourangeau and Ken Mather attended the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego. (right) The group shows off the medal they won at the Outreach Olympics.
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