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Holography Classes | School Residencies | Community Artwork | Light Express Roadshow |
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| Holography Classes: Full-time Laser Technology Instructor 1998 - 2003 - Columbia Area Career Center, Columbia, Missouri, USA. The Columbia Area Career Center runs the worlds first Photonics Program at High School level. The 3-year program teaches students basic skills needed towards training to become a laser technician. Pearl John has helped develop the curriculum of all three classes within the Photonics Program. The year long "Introduction to Laser technology" course is aimed at 16-year-olds and includes; basic and advanced holography, laser light sculpture, manufacturing with lasers, telecommunications, medical applications with lasers and laser light shows. |
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| Pearl John and Photonics Instructor, Richard Shanks with students, 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduction to Laser Technology Class 3R, 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student Crystal Couey making a hologram, 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Young, making a hologram, 2000. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rusty Terwelp with ANGEL, 4 x 5 stained glass with white light transmission hologram, 2002. | Crystal Couey with single beam reflection hologram, 2000. | CRUCIFIX, 2.5 x 2.5 reflection hologram by student, Chaz Guidry , 2002 | MEDAL, 2.5 x 2.5 Reflection hologram by student, Naomi Tesfamikael, 2002. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Light Sculpture - Light Bridge Images, 2000. | Building the Light Bridge, 2001. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday Science
The students in the Laser Technology program help with various outreach projects, one of them, Saturday Science, helps local 14 year-old students make 100 holograms over the space of 3 Saturdays. This project is aimed at encouraging more girls and students from minority backgrounds into the field of optics and science. |
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| 9th grade Saturday Science participant with her hologram, 2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pearl John with students viewing their holograms at the end of Saturday Science, 2003. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Participants learn about spectroscopy and diffraction duringSaturday Science, 2003. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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More details of educational events: School Residencies | Community Artwork |
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