OP-TEC Videos

OP-TEC Photonics Technician Career Videos

OP-TEC’s Photonics Career Videos project in an effort to provide teachers, counselors, students and parents video profiles of successful two-year college technical program students and graduates.   Click here to learn more and view the videos!

You can also view OP-TEC videos on our YouTube Channel (OPTECcom) at www.youtube.com/user/OPTECcom!

Advanced Technological Education Television (ATETV) is a Web-based video series and interactive network designed to connect students and professionals with careers in advanced technology. An Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, ATETV aims to show how ATE is relevant to the modern workplace and to attract students to this growing field.  The ATETV video series highlights ATE success stories from community colleges and ATE programs nationwide. ATETV’s outreach efforts — at ATETV.org and on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter — aim to connect employers in industry and government with the high-tech workforce of tomorrow.  Click here to learn more about ATETV.org and to access the ATETV videos.

Photonics-Related Videos on ATETV.org:

Women Study Lasers and Photonics
Featuring Katie Renshaw, Laser and Photonics Program Student, Central Carolina Community College, Lillington, North Carolina

Using Lasers and Photonics
Featuring Jazmine Murphy, Laser and Photonics Program Student, Central Carolina Community College, Lillington, North Carolina

Shedding Light on Lasers
Featuring Todd Devine, Laser and Photonics Program Student, Central Carolina Community College, Lillington, North Carolina

More Optics and Photonics Videos

Light in Action:  Lasers, Cameras & Other Cool Stuff
Description:  This new SPIE video, Light in Action: Lasers, Cameras & Other Cool Stuff, features kids showing kids aged 9-11 that science can be fun and exciting and that advancements with light are all around them.
Available for free download at:  http://spie.org/x30120.xml
Produced by SPIE and Black Dog Productions c. 2009. 
Financial support provided by IEEE Photonics Society.  
DVD Length: 14min; Audience Age: 9-11

Optics: Light at Work
Description:  This video provides kids with real world applications of optics technology - remote controls, cell phones, bar code scanners, and computers - things they use in their daily lives, as well as, examples of "cool" new technology such as nanomedicine, space telescopes, invisibility, and solar energy.
Available for free download at:  http://spie.org/x30120.xml
Produced by SPIE and Black Dog Productions c. 2007. 
Financial support provided by OSA. 
DVD Length: 15 min.; Audience Age: 12-13

Careers in Optics
Description:  This CD-ROM is a must-see for anyone who is considering a career in science. The program allows the viewer to experience the excitement of people working in the fascinating and rapidly expanding fields of optics and photonics.
Available for free download at:  http://spie.org/x30120.xml
Produced by SPIE c. 2004. 
CD-ROM Length: 15 min; Audience Age: 16-20

More video links coming soon!
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