Photonics: challenging diverse students in a flat world for emerging careers

Joyce Hilliard-Clark

doi:10.1117/12.2207804

3 June 2007 Photonics: challenging diverse students in a flat world for emerging careers

Joyce Hilliard-Clark

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Proceedings Volume 9665, Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics; 96651U (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207804
Event: Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

The Photonics program addresses the question of how does one integrate scientific content, student encouragement, and parental support to engage minority high school students to experience success in areas of a national need? Historical data indicates that ethnically diverse students, (African Americans), do not take advanced mathematics and science, (physics), courses in high school. Therefore, we propose using a variety of strategies for providing instruction in leadership, experimentation, research writing, communication and scientific presentation to work with students, families and teachers in promoting success and academic achievement in challenging science courses. Seventy-five African American students are participating in a yearround Photonics (physics of light) program at NC State University. Students from fifteen counties in North Carolina learn about fiber optics, communications and the properties of light.

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Joyce Hilliard-Clark "Photonics: challenging diverse students in a flat world for emerging careers", Proc. SPIE 9665, Tenth International Topical Meeting on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, 96651U (3 June 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2207804

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Photonics

Physics

Mathematics

Electronic circuits

Fiber optic communications

Semiconductor lasers

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